Ground or floor space for threshing or treading out grain.
Threshing floor definition.
The location and method of making threshing floors have already been described under agriculture.
A threshing floor is of two main types.
Before there was machinery farmers used a threshing floor to separate the grain from the chaff.
Threshing floor plural threshing floors the floor of a threshing house or similar area where grain is threshed.
The equipment ran over the grain that was spread on the threshing floor a flat circular area usually at a high elevation exposed to wind.
The place where this work was done.
Threshing was done by hand with a rod or for larger quantities with special equipment such as threshing sledges or rollers pulled by animals.
A threshing floor is a smooth flat surface that was used in the process of harvesting grain.
A threshing floor is of two main types.
Definition of threshing floor.
Iddar occurs in daniel 2 35.
These floors have come into prominence because of the biblical events which occurred on or near them.
The process of threshing was performed generally by spreading the sheaves on the threshing floor and causing oxen and cattle to tread repeatedly over them loosening the edible part of cereal grain or other crop from the scaly inedible chaff that surrounds it deuteronomy 25 4.
The harvested produce would be spread over the threshing floor and then animals cattle or oxen would be led over it to crush and break the sheaves apart with their hooves.
The process of releasing grain from its stalk and chaff.
1 a specially flattened outdoor surface usually circular and paved or 2 inside a building with a smooth floor of earth stone or wood where a farmer would thresh the grain harvest and then winnow it.