Bible Dictionary: Shovel

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.

2. (v. t.) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.

3. (v. t.) To gather up as with a shovel.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

SHOVEL

shuv'-l:

(1) rachath, is a wooden shovel used on the threshing-floor for winnowing the grain (Isaiah 30:24).

(2) ya`, is used in various passages to indicate some instrument employed to carry away ashes from the altar (Exodus 27:3; Exodus 38:3 Numbers 4:14 1 Kings 7:40, 45 2 Kings 25:14 2 Chronicles 4:11, 16 Jeremiah 52:18). It was very likely a small shovel like those used in connection with modern fireplaces for cleaning away the ashes (compare Hebrew ya`ah, "to sweep away") or for carrying live coals to start a new fire.

(3) yathedh (Deuteronomy 23:13 the Revised Version margin)

James A. Patch

Greek

4425. ptuon -- a winnowing shovel
... a winnowing shovel. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: ptuon Phonetic
Spelling: (ptoo'-on) Short Definition: a simple wooden pitchfork Definition: a ...
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2369. thumiaterion -- altar of incense, a censer
... thoo-mee-as-tay'-ree-on) Short Definition: altar of incense Definition: (ordinarily:
censer, but) either the altar of incense, or the shovel, on which the high ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7371. rachath -- winnowing shovel
... 7370, 7371. rachath. 7372 . winnowing shovel. Transliteration: rachath
Phonetic Spelling: (rakh'-ath) Short Definition: shovel. ...
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3257. ya -- a shovel
... a shovel. Transliteration: ya Phonetic Spelling: (yaw) Short Definition: shovels.
Word Origin from yaah Definition a shovel NASB Word Usage shovels (9). shovel. ...
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4053. megraphah -- a shovel
... 4052, 4053. megraphah. 4054 . a shovel. Transliteration: megraphah Phonetic
Spelling: (mig-raw-faw') Short Definition: clods. Word ...
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4214. mizreh -- a pitchfork
... Word Origin from zarah Definition a pitchfork NASB Word Usage fork (2). fan. From
zarah; a winnowing shovel (as scattering the chaff) -- fan. see HEBREW zarah. ...
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Library

The Treasure Cave
... The light, dry sand he pitched with his wooden shovel against the great cube until
it all lay where the wind would have piled it had no second wall stood in ...
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Athor, the Golden
... His sense of security had been strengthened by the renewed activities in Masaarah.
With a shovel of tamarisk he cleared the slab of its drift of sand. ...
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"There, Baby!" Said Diamond; "I'M So Happy that I Can Only Sing ...
... earth. Now one would sorrowfully shovel the earth into the hole again, trample
it down with his little bare white feet, and walk on. ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 25 there baby said.htm

Sacrifice Renewed
... in the hearts of the men of Judah was more 'rank, and smelt to heaven' more offensively,
than that in the Temple, which took sixteen days to shovel into Kidron ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/sacrifice renewed.htm

A Path in the Sea
... No wind that ever blew would blow water in two opposite directions at once, as a
man might shovel snow to right and left, and heap it in mounds by the sides of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/a path in the sea.htm

The Chaff Driven Away
... They cast up the wheat before the wind with the winnowing shovel, that the breath
of the air may blow away the chaff, and leave the wheat pure. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/the chaff driven away.htm

The Preacher as a Man of the Word.
... the cedar; the builder among his bricks and stones; and the farmer, on the exposed
height of the threshing-floor, winnowing his corn with the shovel and the fan ...
/.../stalker/the preacher and his models/lecture iv the preacher as.htm

The Northern Iron and the Steel
... A very massive piece of masonry had to be broken down, and the task, by pick and
shovel, would have been a very tedious one, so the great architect prepared a ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/the northern iron and the.htm

New York to California
... manure. There, he says, you just shovel that out of the window, and handing
to me a big fork, for the operation, he disappeared. ...
/.../conversion of a high priest into a christian worker/chapter vii new york to.htm

Christianity
... You can hear the gravel rattling out of the grave digger's shovel with a thud upon
the coffin lid; or, you can hear the crunching, jarring sound as the casket ...
/.../haldeman/christ christianity and the bible/christianity.htm

Thesaurus

Shovel (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or
into a cart, or out of a pit. 3. (vt) To gather up as with a shovel. ...SHOVEL. ...
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Winnowing-shovel (2 Occurrences)
Winnowing-shovel. Winnowing-fan, Winnowing-shovel. Winnows .
Multi-Version Concordance Winnowing-shovel (2 Occurrences). ...
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Threshing-floor (36 Occurrences)
... or sledge, charuts or moragh, Arabic lauch eddiras; (2) the fan (fork), mizreh,
Arabic midra, for separating straw from wheat; (3) shovel, meghraphah, Arabic ...
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Winnowing (7 Occurrences)
... Luke 3:17 His winnowing-shovel is in His hand to clear out His threshing-floor,
and to gather the wheat into His storehouse; but the chaff He will burn up in ...
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Fan (8 Occurrences)
... A winnowing shovel by which grain was thrown up against the wind that it might be
cleansed from broken straw and chaff (Isaiah 30:24; Jeremiah 15:7; Matthew 3 ...
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Store (134 Occurrences)
... Matthew 3:12 His winnowing-shovel is in His hand, and He will make a thorough clearance
of His threshing-floor, gathering His wheat into the storehouse, but ...
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Storehouse (12 Occurrences)
... Matthew 3:12 His winnowing-shovel is in His hand, and He will make a thorough clearance
of His threshing-floor, gathering His wheat into the storehouse, but ...
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Shovels (9 Occurrences)

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Clear (641 Occurrences)
... Matthew 3:12 His winnowing-shovel is in His hand, and He will make a thorough clearance
of His threshing-floor, gathering His wheat into the storehouse, but ...
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Shouts (34 Occurrences)

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Bible Concordance

Shovel (3 Occurrences)

Luke 3:17 His winnowing-shovel is in His hand to clear out His threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into His storehouse; but the chaff He will burn up in fire unquenchable."
(WEY YLT)

Deuteronomy 23:13 And thou shalt have a shovel amongst thy weapons, and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which is come from thee.
(DBY)

Isaiah 30:24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Shovel

Shovel: A Utensil in the Tabernacle

Shovel: Temple

Related Terms

Winnowing-shovel (2 Occurrences)

Threshing-floor (36 Occurrences)

Winnowing (7 Occurrences)

Fan (8 Occurrences)

Store (134 Occurrences)

Storehouse (12 Occurrences)

Shovels (9 Occurrences)