Isaiah 28:27 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 28:27

Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

BSB

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ASV

For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

KJV

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

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Commentary

3 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah (1274)

Second, the discretion of his judgment, for he punishes some in one way and others in a different way, just as a farmer beats out wheat in one way and cumin in another, and he indicates this where it says: for he will instruct him …

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument - The word used here (חרוּץ chârûts) denotes properly that which is pointed or sharp, and is joined with מורג môrag in Isa 41:15 - meaning there the threshing dray or sledge; a plank with iron or sharp stones that was drawn by oxen over the grain (compare 2Sa 24:22; 1Ch 21:23). In the passage before us, several methods of threshing are mentioned as adapted to different kinds of grain, all of which are at the present time common in the East.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The husbandman uses the same discretion in threshing. The dill ("fitches") and cummin, leguminous and tender grains, are beaten out, not as wheat, &c., with the heavy corn-drag ("threshing instrument"), but with "a staff"; heavy instruments would crush and injure the seed. cart wheel--two iron wheels armed with iron teeth, like a saw, joined together by a wooden axle.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	that	H3588 →
לֹ֤א	lo'	not	H3808 →
בֶֽחָרוּץ֙	ve.cha.Rutz	with <the> threshing sledge	H2742 →
י֣וּדַשׁ	Yu.dash	it is threshed	H1758 →
קֶ֔צַח	Ke.tzach	black cumin	H7100 →
וְאוֹפַ֣ן	ve.'o.Fan	and a wheel of	H212 →
עֲגָלָ֔ה	'a.ga.Lah	a cart	H5699 →
עַל־	'al-	over	H5921 →
כַּמֹּ֖ן	ka.Mon	cumin	H3646 →
יוּסָּ֑ב	yu.Sav	it is turned	H5437 →
כִּ֧י	ki	for	H3588 →
בַמַּטֶּ֛ה	va.ma.Teh	with <the> staff	H4294 →
יֵחָ֥בֶט	ye.Cha.vet	it is beaten out	H2251 →
קֶ֖צַח	Ke.tzach	black cumin	H7100 →
וְכַמֹּ֥ן	ve.kha.Mon	and cumin	H3646 →
בַּשָּֽׁבֶט׃	ba.Sha.vet	with <the> rod	H7626 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 41:15
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
leads to
- Micah 4:13
  Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD,…
- 2 Corinthians 10:4–5
  The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
- Zechariah 4:7
  What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
- Habakkuk 3:12
  You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
- Isaiah 21:10
  O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
Through
Jeremiah 10:24
Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
leads to
- Psalms 38:1
  O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- Psalms 6:1
  O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
Through
Amos 1:3
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
leads to
- Amos 1:9
  This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah