King James Bible Dictionary

THRESH, verb transitive To thrash. [See Thrash.] The latter is the popular pronunciation, but the word is written thrash or thresh indifferently. [See the derivation and definitions under Thrash.]

THRESH'ER, noun The sea fox.

THRESH'HOLD, noun

1. The door-sill; the plank, stone or piece of timber which lies at the bottom or under a door, particularly of a dwelling house, church, temple or the like; hence, entrance; gate; door.

2. Entrance; the place or point of entering or beginning. He is now at the threshhold of his argument.

Many men that stumble at the threshhold

See AGRICULTURE.

By beating
Ruth 2:17

By treading
Deuteronomy 25:4; Isaiah 25:10; Hosea 10:11; 1 Corinthians 9:9; 1 Timothy 5:18

With instruments:

Of wood
2 Samuel 24:22

Of iron
Amos 1:3

A cart wheel
Isaiah 28:27-28

Floors for
Genesis 50:10-11; Judges 6:37; Ruth 3:2-14; 1 Samuel 23:1; 2 Samuel 6:6; Hosea 9:2; Joel 2:24

Floor of Araunah bought by David for a place of sacrifice
2 Samuel 24:16-25

Floor for, in barns
2 Kings 6:27

[AGRICULTURE]

1. Heb. miphtan, probably a projecting beam at a higher point than the threshold proper (1 Samuel 5:4, 5; Ezekiel 9:3; 10:4, 18; 46:2; 47:1); also rendered "door" and "door-post."

2. Asuppim, pl. (Nehemiah 12:25), rendered correctly "storehouses" in the Revised Version. In 1 Chronicles 26:15, 17 the Authorized Version retains the word as a proper name, while in the Revised Version it is translated "storehouses."

Of the two words so rendered is the Authorized Version, one,miphthan, ,seems to mean sometimes a projecting beam or corbel. (Ezekiel 9:3; 10:4,18)

This word, Asuppe , appears to be inaccurately rendered in (Nehemiah 12:25) though its real force has perhaps not yet been discovered. The "house of Asuppim," or simply "the Asuppim," is mentioned in (1 Chronicles 26:15,17) as a part, probably a gate of the enclosure of the "house of Jehovah," apparently at its southwest corner. The allusion in (Nehemiah 12:29) is undoubtedly to the same place. [GATE]