Bible Dictionary: Thresh

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.

2. (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

3. (v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

4. (v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.

5. (v. t. & i.) Same as Thrash.

Greek

248. aloao -- to thresh
... aloao. 249 . to thresh. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: aloao Phonetic Spelling:
(al-o-ah'-o) Short Definition: I thresh Definition: I thresh (wheat). ...
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5147. tribos -- a beaten track, a path
... Mal 3:6; Heb 13:8). Word Origin from tribo (to rub, thresh out) Definition
a beaten track, a path NASB Word Usage paths (3). path. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1758. dush -- to tread, thresh
... 1757, 1758. dush or dish. 1759 . to tread, thresh. Transliteration: dush or
dish Phonetic Spelling: (doosh) Short Definition: threshing. Word Origin a prim ...
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156. adash -- thresh
... adash. 157 . thresh. Transliteration: adash Phonetic Spelling: (aw-dash') Short
Definition: thresh. ... thresh A primitive root; to tread out (grain) -- thresh. ...
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1854. daqaq -- to crush, pulverize, thresh
... 1853, 1854. daqaq. 1855 . to crush, pulverize, thresh. Transliteration: daqaq
Phonetic Spelling: (daw-kak') Short Definition: crushed. Word Origin a prim. ...
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2251. chabat -- to beat off, beat out
... beat off, out, thresh. A primitive root; to knock out or off -- beat (off, out),
thresh. 2250, 2251. chabat. 2252 . Strong's Numbers.
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1869. darak -- to tread, march
... archer, bend, come, draw, go over, guide, lead forth, thresh,. A primitive
root; to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string ...
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Library

A Sermon for the Time Present
... Yet we have continued to thresh the promises ever since faith was given
us, and we have carried away our full portion every day. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 33 1887/a sermon for the time.htm

How to Read the Bible
... According to Pharisaic interpretation, to rub an ear of corn is a kind of threshing,
and, as it is very wrong to thresh on the Sabbath day, therefore it must ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 25 1879/how to read the bible.htm

Reform
... together for the worship of God, but it is lamentable to reflect, how often the
reverence which is exhibited in the sanctuary is lost when the thresh-hold is ...
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God's Gentle Power
... go back to all thy service with a good heart and true."Fear not thou worm Jacob;
I will help thee, saith the Lord." Arise, thou worm, and thresh the mountain ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 62 1916/gods gentle power.htm

The Desolations of the Lord, the Consolation of his Saints
... with which he breaks in pieces the gates of brass, to make a way for his people;
they are but the threshing wains, with which he doth thresh the mountains and ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the desolations of the lord.htm

Harvest Joy
... "Why!" say you, "what is that?" The farmer says, "I have got that load in very well;
but I wonder how it will thresh out." I often think of you who are added ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 38 1892/harvest joy.htm

Concerning those who Come in the Name of Christ the Terrible Signs ...
... go; and thy shield shall be (like) the glittering of the lightning's flash; in thine
anger thou shalt grind the earth, and shalt thresh the nations in thy wrath ...
/.../the five books against marcion/chapter xxxix concerning those who come.htm

Habakkuk's Rhapsody of the Chaldeans
... thy glittering spear. Thou dost march through the land in indignation, Thou
dost thresh the nations in anger. Epode. Thou art come ...
/.../habakkuks rhapsody of the chaldeans.htm

The Providence of God
... Indeed, as Augustine says well, We are beholden to wicked men, who against their
wills do us good,' As the corn is beholden to the flail to thresh off its husks ...
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Additional Notes.
... Field refers to "iunumera loca," but quotes none expressly; and to the difficulty
in regard to the transpositions, . . . which he does not thresh out. . . . ...
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Thesaurus

Thresh (7 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Thresh (7 Occurrences). ... You will thresh the mountains,
and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff. ...
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Threshed (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Thresh. Multi-Version Concordance
Threshed (7 Occurrences). Judges 6:11 And there came an ...
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Threshing (57 Occurrences)
... (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thresh. Int. ... THRESHING. thresh'-ing (dush; aloao): Dush means
literally, "to trample out." In Jeremiah 51:33, darakh, is used of threshing. ...
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Threshingfloor (18 Occurrences)
...thresh'-ing-flor (goren; halon; 'iddar, occurs in Daniel 2:35): The location and
method of making threshing-floors have already been described under AGRICULTURE ...
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Hoofs (18 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 28:28 Bread-'corn' is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh
it, Nor crushed 'it' hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small ...
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Beat (85 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 28:28 Bread-'corn' is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh
it, Nor crushed 'it' hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small ...
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Beaten (73 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 28:28 Bread-'corn' is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh
it, Nor crushed 'it' hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small ...
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Gains (19 Occurrences)
... Micah 4:13 Arise, and thresh, O daughter of Zion, For thy horn I make iron, And
thy hoofs I make brass, And thou hast beaten small many peoples, And I have ...
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Thrash (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) Alt. of Thresh. 2. (vt) Alt. of Thresh.
Multi-Version Concordance Thrash (1 Occurrence). Judges ...
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Three-year-old (1 Occurrence)
Three-year-old. Three-year, Three-year-old. Thresh . Multi-Version Concordance ...
(See NAS RSV NIV). Three-year, Three-year-old. Thresh . Reference Bible.
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Bible Concordance

Thresh (7 Occurrences)

Isaiah 27:12 It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
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Isaiah 28:28 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don't grind it.
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Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
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Jeremiah 51:33 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
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Hosea 10:11 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
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Micah 4:13 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Habakkuk 3:12 You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
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Subtopics

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