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Sieve (2 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. SIEVE; SIFT. siv. See AGRICULTURE; THRESHING.
Multi-Version Concordance Sieve (2 Occurrences). ...
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Sift (5 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse;
as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime. ...SIEVE; SIFT. ...
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Bolt (5 Occurrences)
... 25. (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour
and meal; a bolter. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BOLT. ...
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Shakes (11 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 30:28 And His breath is as an overflowing stream, that divideth even unto
the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that ...
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Siegeworks (8 Occurrences)

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Reach (63 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 30:28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck,
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads ...
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Shake (68 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 30:28 And His breath is as an overflowing stream, that divideth even unto
the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that ...
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Kernel (4 Occurrences)
... Amos 9:9 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among
all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will ...
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Jaws (12 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 30:28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck,
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads ...
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Limp (9 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A halt; the act of limping. 3. (n.) A scraper for removing poor ore
or refuse from the sieve. 4. (a.) Flaccid; flabby, as flesh. ...
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Bible Concordance

Sieve (2 Occurrences)

Isaiah 30:28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
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Amos 9:9 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.

2. (n.) A kind of coarse basket.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

SIEVE; SIFT

siv.

See AGRICULTURE; THRESHING.

Greek

1368. diulizo -- to strain thoroughly, strain out
... strain out. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diulizo Phonetic Spelling:
(dee-oo-lid'-zo) Short Definition: I strain, put through a sieve Definition: I ...
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4617. siniazo -- to sift
... sift. From sinion (a sieve); to riddle (figuratively) -- sift. (siniasai) -- 1
Occurrence. 4616, 4617. siniazo. 4617a . Strong's Numbers.
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4617a. siniazo -- to sift
... to sift. Transliteration: siniazo Short Definition: sift. Word Origin from sinion
(a sieve) Definition to sift NASB Word Usage sift (1). 4617, 4617a. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3531. kebarah -- a sieve
... 3530, 3531. kebarah. 3532 . a sieve. Transliteration: kebarah Phonetic
Spelling: (keb-aw-raw') Short Definition: sieve. Word Origin ...
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5299a. naphah -- a sieve
... naphah. 5299b . a sieve. Transliteration: naphah Short Definition: sieve. Word
Origin from nuph Definition a sieve NASB Word Usage sieve (1). 5299, 5299a. ...
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5299. naphah -- a sieve
... 5298, 5299. naphah. 5299a . a sieve. Transliteration: naphah Phonetic Spelling:
(naw-faw') Short Definition: border. border, coast, region, sieve ...
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Library

(And Last): Homeward Bound
... Moreover, though going to sea in the Shannon was not quite the same 'as going to
sea in a sieve,' our stay-at-home friends were of the same mind as those of ...
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Temptations.
... There is nothing that Satan more desires than to get good men in his sieve to sift
them as wheat, that if possible he may leave them nothing but bran; no grace ...
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Against the Platonists, who Argue from the Physical Weight of the ...
... that is a great one which Varro mentions of a vestal virgin, who, when she was
endangered by a false accusation of unchastity, filled a sieve with water from ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 11 against the platonists who.htm

Gethsemane
... Satan had out-asked,' obtained it - yet not to destroy, nor to cast down, but to
sift,' like as wheat [5825] is shaken in a sieve to cast out of it what is not ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xii gethsemane.htm

The Nuns of the Primitive Church
... One day, Cyrilla accidentally broke a stone sieve which she had borrowed
for the purpose of making the youthful saint some bread. ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/vi the nuns of the.htm

Christ is All
... how many are not. I shall make my text a great sieve, and put you in it
to see which is wheat and which is chaff. We must consider ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 61 1915/christ is all.htm

Life from the Dead
... help stopping a minute to know whether it is so with you, my dear hearers, and praying
that what I might have to say act as a kind of sieve, separating between ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 38 1892/life from the dead.htm

The Cross and the Winepress.
... Crucifixion. At the foot of the winepress, in the stone vat, there was a
sort of sieve to stop the skins, which were put on one side. ...
/.../the dolorous passion of our lord jesus christ/chapter lv the cross and.htm

Usha
... a stone which hath no movers.' They say, that they departed not thence, until they
had fastened three hundred iron darts into him, and had made him like a sieve ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 84 usha.htm

If You Give a Grape to Him when Hungry...
... What, if you go on to ask what a wheel is, or a sledge, [3555] a winnowing-fan,
jar, tub, an oil-mill, ploughshare, or sieve, a mill-stone, ploughtail, or ...
/.../arnobius/the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/23 if you give a.htm

Subtopics

Related Terms

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