SHOVEL.1. Exo_27:3; Exo_38:3, Num_4:14, 1Ki_7:40; 1Ki_7:45, 2Ki_25:14, 2Ch_4:11; 2Ch_4:16, Jer_52:18, of a utensil for removing the ashes from the altar. 2. Isa_30:24, for the broad, shallow, winnowing shovel with which corn after threshing was thrown up against the wind to clear it of the chaff.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
shuv?'l: (1) רחת, raḥath, is a wooden shovel used on the threshing-floor for winnowing the grain (Isa_30:24). (2) יע, yā‛, is used in various passages to indicate some instrument employed to carry away ashes from the altar (Exo_27:3; Exo_38:3; Num_4:14; 1Ki_7:40, 1Ki_7:45; 2Ki_25:14; 2Ch_4:11, 2Ch_4:16; Jer_52:18). It was very likely a small shovel like those used in connection with modern fireplaces for cleaning away the ashes (compare Hebrew yā‛ah, ?to sweep away?) or for carrying live coals to start a new fire. (3) יתד, yāthēdh (Deu_23:13 the Revised Version margin)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
is the rendering in the A.V. of
1. רחת, rachath (from רוּח, the wind), a winnowing fork or fan (Isa_30:24);
2. יָע, ya (from יָעָה, to sweep away), used (in the plur.) of the implements for removing the ashes from the altar (Exo_27:3; Exo_38:3; Num_4:14; 1Ki_7:40; 1Ki_7:45; 2Ki_25:14; 2Ch_4:11; 2Ch_4:16; Jer_52:18). SEE AGRICULTURE; SEE ALTAR.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
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