A wooden tool with prongs or a flat blade used to toss threshed grain into the air, allowing the wind to separate the straw and chaff from the grain.
About Winnowing Fork
The winnowing fork was a wooden fork-like implement, with five to seven prongs, for throwing threshed grain into the air so that the wind might separate the straw and chaff from the grain.
Key References
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
All Scripture References (4)
Isaiah (1)
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
Jeremiah (1)
I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
Matthew (1)
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Luke (1)
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”