Grinding

Grinding using a hand mill

Exodus 11:5; Matthew 24:41 parallel Luke 17:35 See also Numbers 11:8; Judges 16:21 Samson doing a woman's work; Isaiah 47:2

and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.

Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.

Grinding grain into flour

Numbers 15:20 See also Numbers 15:21; 2 Chronicles 2:10; Nehemiah 10:37; Job 31:10; Isaiah 28:28; Ezekiel 44:30

From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.

Grinding incense

Exodus 30:36; Leviticus 16:12

Grinding as an act of destruction

Deuteronomy 9:21 See also 2 Kings 23:15

And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Grinding used figuratively

Isaiah 3:15 See also Proverbs 27:22

Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.