Threshing

The process of beating out or separating grain from harvested stalks.

Threshing and the harvest

Leviticus 26:5 See also Judges 6:11; 1 Chronicles 21:20; 1 Corinthians 9:9; Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Timothy 5:18 Paul is adapting a humane OT law to the support of Christian workers.

Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

Threshing implements

2 Samuel 24:22 parallel 1 Chronicles 21:23 A threshing-sledge was a board studded underneath with sharp stones which was dragged by oxen over the wheat ears in order to separate the kernels. See also Job 41:30; Isaiah 28:27–28, Isaiah 41:15

Araunah said to David, “May my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

Threshing used figuratively

Isaiah 27:12; Hosea 10:11 See also 2 Kings 13:7; Proverbs 20:26; Jeremiah 50:11; Micah 4:13

In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.

Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.