Topic
Winnowing
3 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Ruth 3:2Nave Of grain
And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.
- Isaiah 30:24Nave Of grain
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
- Matthew 3:12Nave Of grain
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
win'-o-ing.
See AGRICULTURE; FAN; THRESHING.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.