1. (n.) One who, or that which, sifts.

2. (n.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the beak.

To Eusebius, Bishop of Ancyra.
... But if the multitude of our sins suffer not this to come to pass; if for their sakes
we are delivered to the sifter; we pray that we may share the perils ...
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The New Testament Canon in the First Three Centuries.
... of Abgar's letters to Christ, and in the canon of the four gospels at the time of
Trajan, cannot take rank as a judicious collector or sifter of facts. ...
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Sifter (2 Occurrences)
...Sifter (2 Occurrences). Daniel 4:13 I was looking, in the visions of my head on
my bed, and lo, a sifter, even a holy one, from the heavens is coming down. ...
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Sifted (2 Occurrences)

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Sifters (1 Occurrence)

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Descending (23 Occurrences)
... Daniel 4:23 and that which the king hath seen -- a sifter, even a holy one, coming
down from the heavens, and he hath said, Cut down the tree, and destroy it ...
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