Dictionary of Bible Themes  »  4000 Creation  »  4400 Vegetation and food  »  4524 threshing-floor

The place where winnowing and threshing took place at harvest time.

The threshing-floor and agriculture

Genesis 50:10-11; Judges 6:37; Ruth 3:2-14; 1 Samuel 23:1; 2 Samuel 6:6 pp 1 Chronicles 13:9; 1 Kings 22:10 pp 2 Chronicles 18:9; Job 39:12

The threshing-floor as a symbol of harvest

Deuteronomy 16:13 See also Numbers 15:20; Numbers 18:27,30; Deuteronomy 15:14; 2 Kings 6:27; Hosea 9:1-2; Joel 2:24

The threshing-floor as a symbol of judgment

Isaiah 21:10; Hosea 13:3 See also Jeremiah 51:33; Daniel 2:35; Micah 4:12; Matthew 3:12 pp Luke 3:17

A threshing-floor was the site of the Jerusalem temple

2 Chronicles 3:1 See also 2 Samuel 24:16-25 pp 1 Chronicles 21:15-26

See also

4406  agriculture
4426  chaff
4464  harvest
4522  threshing
4550  winnowing
7467  temple, Solomon's
9210  judgment, God's