Thematic Bible: Implements of
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sickle
“You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
Verse Concepts
“When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, you may pluck the ears of grain with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain [to harvest it].
Verse Concepts
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The cart
Now then, make a new cart and prepare two milk cows on which a yoke has never been placed; and hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves back home, away from them.
Verse Concepts
For dill is not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; but dill is beaten off with a staff, and cummin with a rod [by hand]. Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it continuously. But when he has driven his cartwheel and his horses over it, he scatters it [tossing it up to the wind] without having crushed it.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The mattock
So all [the men of] Israel went down to the Philistines, each to get his plowshare, pick, axe, or sickle sharpened.
Verse Concepts
As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the pick and the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place where oxen are pastured and where sheep tread.
Verse Concepts
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fan
His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear out His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom), but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire.”
Verse Concepts
Also the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
Verse Concepts
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The pruning-hook
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over
And the flower becomes a ripening grape,
He will cut off the sprigs [without buds] with pruning knives,
And [He will] remove and cut away the spreading branches.
Beat your plowshares into swords
And your pruning hooks into spears;
Let the weak say, “I am strong!”
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The harrow
He also brought out the people who were there, and put them to [work with] the saws and sharp iron instruments and iron axes, and made them work at the brickkiln. And he did this to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the men returned to Jerusalem.
Verse Concepts
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The plow
So all [the men of] Israel went down to the Philistines, each to get his plowshare, pick, axe, or sickle sharpened.
Verse Concepts
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fork
The fee [for sharpening] was a pim (two-thirds of a shekel) for the plowshares, the picks, the pitchforks, and the axes, and to straighten the goads (cattle prods).
Verse Concepts
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The axe
So all [the men of] Israel went down to the Philistines, each to get his plowshare, pick, axe, or sickle sharpened.
Verse Concepts
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The teethed threshing instrument
“In fact, I have made of you a new, sharp
You will thresh the mountains and crush them,
And make the hills like chaff.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The flail, &c
For dill is not threshed with a sharp threshing sledge,
Nor is a cartwheel rolled over cumin;
But dill is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The shovel
Also the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
Verse Concepts
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sieve
“For behold, I am commanding,
And I shall shake and sift the house of Israel among all nations [and cause it to tremble]
Like grain is shaken in a sieve [removing the chaff],
But not a kernel [of the faithful remnant] shall fall to the ground and be lost [from My sight].