Threshing floor

The Threshing Floor

#152 Oxen thresh grain and men separate kernels from straw. Genesis 50.10-11 Then they came to the threshing floor of Aʹtad, which is in the region of the Jordan, and there they carried on a very great and bitter mourning, and he kept mourning for his father seven days. 11 The inhabitants of the land, the Caʹnaan·ites, saw them mourning at the threshing floor

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A Threshing Floor In the ancient world, farmers used threshing floors to separate grain from its inedible husk (chaff) by beating it...

After David’s sin in the the matter of taking a census of the people of Israel, and his acknowledgment of the sin, he was told by Gad to build an altar (2 Samuel 24:1-10). The instructions ar…

European threshing floors

(8/9) THE SOWER AND THE SEED: THE WINNOWING “After threshing, winnowing was done. Winnowing does a more precise job of separating the wheat from the chaff. The chaff is useless and would be burned. The farmer usually waited for a nice evening breeze, and the mixture of wheat and chaff was thrown into the wind on the threshing floor with a wooden fork and a spade, or winnowing shovel. The grain would fall to the ground, and the wind would carry the chaff away.” - Excerpt from The Farmer in…

Threshing floor, Flerio, Naxos

This process is known as “Vihiru Gama” or “Vihiru Gäma” in Sinhala, which translates to “threshing the paddy.” Once the paddy crop has fully matured and dried in the field, farmers gather the stalks and bundle them together. These bundles are then spread out on a flat, dry surface, typically a threshing floor made of compacted clay or concrete. At this point, the farmers bring in their buffaloes, which play a crucial role in separating the paddy grains from the stalks and leaves. The…

Ruth gleaning in the fields of Boaz, 1886 - by Alexandre Cabanel (1823 - 1889), French