KJV dictionary & concordance
To separate grain from husks and straw by beating, treading, or a similar process.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Isaiah 41:15
Complete exact-word concordance
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Behold, I will make thee a new sharpe threshing instrument hauing teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountaines, and beate them small, and shalt make the hilles as chaffe.
1611 marginal noteHebr. mouthes.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
For thus saith the LORD of hostes, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floore; it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her haruest shall come.
1611 marginal noteOr, in the time that he thresheth her.
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horne yron, & I will make thy hooues brasse, and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gaine vnto the LORD, and their substance vnto the LORD of the whole earth.
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
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1 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
To thrash.
