Winnowing Fork

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.

Winnowing fork
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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.

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Key References

Matthew 3:12

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.”

Ruth 3:2

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.

Jeremiah 15:7

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)
Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

Jeremiah (1)
Jeremiah 15:7

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)
Matthew 3:12

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)
Luke 3:17

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.”