Flail
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.

2. (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.

Strong's Hebrew
4347. makkah -- a blow, wound, slaughter
... Or (masculine) makkeh {muk-keh'}; (plural only) from nakah; a blow (in 2 Chronicles
2:10, of the flail); by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also ...
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A Sermon for the Time Present
... golden grain; but the next day he went and threshed again, and brought back as much
as the day before; and on the day after, again taking his flail, he went to ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 33 1887/a sermon for the time.htm

Bunyan's Dying Sayings.
... that thou mayst be better. The Lord useth his FLAIL of tribulation to separate
the chaff from the wheat. The school of the cross ...
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Trials of the Christian
... appoint them some fasting-days. The Lord useth his flail of tribulation
to separate the chaff from the wheat. Observe Paul: he died ...
/.../bunyan/the riches of bunyan/xiv trials of the christian.htm

Mr. John Bunyan's Dying Sayings.
... that thou mayest be better. The Lord useth his flail of tribulation to
separate the chaff from the wheat. The school of the cross ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/mr john bunyans dying sayings.htm

That the Perfect Lover of God had Liever Run into Great Pain than ...
... Thou seest under the flail both corn and chaff at once; but in the winnowing the
chaff is cast out and the corn is busily gathered to man's use. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter viii that the perfect.htm

The Husbandman and his Operations
... harvest? Does his carrying the seed-basket at one time make it impossible
that he shall come with flail and threshing-oxen at another? ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the husbandman and his operations.htm

The Life of Mr. Walter Mill.
... you shall know that I will not recant the truth, for I am corn and not chaff: I
will neither be blown away by the wind, nor burst with the flail, but will ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the life of mr walter.htm

Of the Advantages and Disadvantages which Often Indiscriminately ...
... For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under
the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 8 of the advantages and.htm

The Barley Field on Fire
... tribulation. All wheat must be threshed: and God's threshing-floor witnesses
to the weight of the flail as much as any other. Gold ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 10 1864/the barley field on fire.htm

Darkness Before the Dawn
... I know that God's children are not long without tribulation. As long as the wheat
is on the threshing-floor, it must expect to feel the flail. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 42 1896/darkness before the dawn.htm

Thesaurus
Flail (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking
part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. ...Flail (1 Occurrence). ...
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Flake

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Zalmun'na (8 Occurrences)
... Judges 8:7 And Gideon said, "Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and
Zalmun'na into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness ...
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Flagstaff (1 Occurrence)

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Thresh (7 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) 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 ...
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Myrrh (22 Occurrences)
... gathered from various species of cistus, especially C. creticus in the Greek Isles,
where it is collected by threshing the plants by a kind of flail from which ...
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Money (284 Occurrences)
... seahorse, and, beneath, a dolphin. The reverse bears an owl with the Egyptian
crook and a flail, symbols of Osiris. The early coins of ...
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Flail (1 Occurrence)

Judges 8:7
And Gideon said, "Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmun'na into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."
(DBY RSV)

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Money (284 Occurrences)

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