'Shearing' in the Bible

Meanwhile, Laban had been out shearing his sheep. While he was away, Rachel stole her father's personal idols.

Give them the first gatherings of your grain, wine, and oil, as well as wool from the shearing of your flock.

And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep,

I hear that you are shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.

And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,

And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.