Dictionary of Bible Themes – 4524 threshing-floor
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4524 threshing-floor

4524 threshing-floor

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

The threshing-floor and agriculture

Ge 50:10-11; Jdg 6:37; Ru 3:2-14; 1Sa 23:1; 2Sa 6:6 pp 1Ch 13:9; 1Ki 22:10 pp 2Ch 18:9; Job 39:12

The threshing-floor as a symbol of harvest

Dt 16:13 See also Nu 15:20; Nu 18:27,30; Dt 15:14; 2Ki 6:27; Hos 9:1-2; Joel 2:24

The threshing-floor as a symbol of judgment

Isa 21:10; Hos 13:3 See also Jer 51:33; Da 2:35; Mic 4:12; Mt 3:12 pp Lk 3:17

A threshing-floor was the site of the Jerusalem temple

2Ch 3:1 See also 2Sa 24:16-25 pp 1Ch 21:15-26

See also

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