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# winnow

«winnow» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To toss grain into the wind so the light husks blow away…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To toss grain into the wind so the light husks blow away and the good grain falls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/winnow/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Winnowing is a farm task, and the prophets use it for separating good from bad. Interpretation: Tradition reads it as a picture of God's judgment, which sifts the worthy from the worthless.

### examples

- The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. (Prophets ISA.30.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/winnow/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [Behold, he winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing-floor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/RUT.52/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «winnow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/winnow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.