Thematic Bible: Mill


Thematic Bible



Do not take a hand mill or an upper millstone as security for a debt. That would be taking away a man's livelihood. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

Its heart is as hard as stone, as hard as the lower millstone. Verse ConceptsMillstonesRocksHardnessOther References To The Heart

Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt; uncover the leg and cross the rivers. Verse ConceptsGrindingLegsPassing ThroughVeilsPeople Stripping OffGrinding Food

The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

The young men crushed the grain, and the boys fell under the wood. Verse ConceptsHard LaborStaggeringGrinding FoodFirewoodYoung People Suffering

The sound of harp players, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, will not be heard anymore in you. No craftsman will be found in you. The sound of a millstone will not be heard in you anymore. Verse ConceptsBabylonFlutesHarpsMillstonesGrinding FoodNo MusicInstrumentalistsartistscraftsmanship


The people would gather it and then grind it in a hand mill or crush it in a mortar. They would cook it in a pot or make round loaves of bread out of it. It tasted like rich sweet pastry made with oil. Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingOilCakesBricksGrinding Foodcooking

and wherever he goes, the first-born son in every family will die. Your own son will die. So will the son of the lowest slave woman. Even the first-born males of cattle will die. Verse ConceptsGrindingSittingThroneDeath Of The FirstbornDeath Of CreaturesGreat And SmallBoth Men And Animals KilledDeath Of Other GroupsThe Death Of BabiesDeath Of A ChildFamily Death