Thematic Bible: Mill


Thematic Bible



No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone. Verse ConceptsMillstonesRocksHardnessOther References To The Heart

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. Verse ConceptsGrindingLegsPassing ThroughVeilsPeople Stripping OffGrinding Food

The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood. Verse ConceptsHard LaborStaggeringGrinding FoodFirewoodYoung People Suffering

The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you. Verse ConceptsBabylonFlutesHarpsMillstonesGrinding FoodNo MusicInstrumentalistsartistscraftsmanship


The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingOilCakesBricksGrinding Foodcooking

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock. Verse ConceptsGrindingSittingThroneDeath Of The FirstbornDeath Of CreaturesGreat And SmallBoth Men And Animals KilledDeath Of Other GroupsThe Death Of BabiesDeath Of A ChildFamily Death