Thematic Bible: Mill


Thematic Bible



No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone. Verse ConceptsMillstonesRocksHardnessOther References To The Heart

Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers. Verse ConceptsGrindingLegsPassing ThroughVeilsPeople Stripping OffGrinding Food

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood. Verse ConceptsHard LaborStaggeringGrinding FoodFirewoodYoung People Suffering

And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you; Verse ConceptsBabylonFlutesHarpsMillstonesGrinding FoodNo MusicInstrumentalistsartistscraftsmanship


The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil. Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingOilCakesBricksGrinding Foodcooking

And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle. Verse ConceptsGrindingSittingThroneDeath Of The FirstbornDeath Of CreaturesGreat And SmallBoth Men And Animals KilledDeath Of Other GroupsThe Death Of BabiesDeath Of A ChildFamily Death

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain