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# winnowing

«winnowing» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The act of tossing grain in the wind to blow the husks away** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The act of tossing grain in the wind to blow the husks away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/winnowing/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Isaiah calls Israel God's threshing and winnowing, a people beaten and sifted by suffering. Interpretation: Tradition reads it as a picture of Israel's trials, after which a pure people remains.

### examples

- O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor, that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. (Prophets ISA.21.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/winnowing/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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