Transportation of grain to the threshing floor.
Winnowing barley on the threshing floor meaning.
A threshing floor is a smooth flat surface that was used in the process of harvesting grain.
He threw up against the wind the mingled mass that was on his floor after the stalks had been carefully trodden or beaten.
Essential to threshing was a threshing floor a flat area of hard dirt or rock on which freshly harvested wheat could be piled.
Threshing is the process of removing the grain of wheat or barley from the stalk and husk.
When the bible speaks of the farmer s fan it does not mean that some instrument was used to increase the wind.
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 threshing was done in different ways depending on how much grain there was and the tools the farmer had available to him.
Before there was machinery farmers used a threshing floor to separate the grain from the chaff.
Winnowing the grain.
Behold he winnoweth barley to night in the threshing floor threshing floor.
Behold he winnoweth barley tonight in the threshing floor ruth 3 2.
Rather the fan was the shovel or wooden fork used when unseparated grain and straw.
Usually a large hard area of earth or stone on the downwind east side of the village where threshing took place loosening the grain from the straw and winnowing.