winnow

«winnow» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To toss grain into the wind so the light husks blow away… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To toss grain into the wind so the light husks blow away and the good grain falls. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Winnowing is a farm task, and the prophets use it for separating good from bad. Interpretation: Tradition reads it as a picture of God's judgment, which sifts the worthy from the worthless.

examples

• The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. (Prophets ISA.30.24, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

In the corpora

• Behold, he winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing-floor.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «winnow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.