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Threshing-floor
The location and method of making threshing-floors have already been described under AGRICULTURE. These floors have come into prominence because of the Biblical events which occurred on or near them. Joseph with his kinsmen and Egyptian followers halted for seven days at the threshing-floor of Atad to lament the death of Jacob (
David built an altar on Ornan’s (Araunah’s) threshing-floor (
Threshing-floors are in danger of being robbed (
The instruments of the threshing-floor referred to in
(1) the wooden drag or sledge, charuts or moragh, Arabic lauch eddiras;
(2) the fan (fork), mizreh, Arabic midra, for separating straw from wheat;
(3) shovel, meghraphah, Arabic mirfashat, for tossing the wheat into the air in winnowing;
(4) broom, maT’aTe’, for sweeping the floor between threshing and for collecting the wheat after winnowing;
(5) goad, malmedh, Arabic messas;
(6) the yoke, `ol, Arabic tauk;
(7) sieve, kebharah, Arabic gharbal;
(8) dung catcher, Arabic milkat.