Difference between revisions of "Mill"

<p> In the East two "circular stones" ( '''''Reechahim''''' ), 2 ft. diameter, the lower fixed, and with the upper surface slightly convex, fitting into the upper stone's concavity. This stone has a hole through which the grain passes, above a pivot rising from the lower stone. About the pivot the "upper stone" ( '''''Recheb''''' , "the rider") is turned by a handle. Being moveable it could be thrown as a missile (&nbsp;Judges 9:53 [[Gesenius]] translated "a cut piece of millstone," not a fragment, but the whole with its carefully cut surface; &nbsp;Revelation 18:21). </p> <p> Two women (&nbsp;Matthew 24:41) facing one another, seated on the ground, both turned it round by the handle, the one supplying the grain through the hole. It was hard servile labor (&nbsp;Exodus 11:5; &nbsp;Judges 16:21; &nbsp;Isaiah 47:1-2; &nbsp;Lamentations 5:18). The mill stones were so essential for preparing food that they were forbidden to be taken in pledge (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 24:6). The cessation of the sound of grinding was a sign of desolation (&nbsp;Jeremiah 25:10; &nbsp;Revelation 18:22; &nbsp;Ecclesiastes 12:3-4, "the grinders cease because they are few ... the sound of the grinding is low".) Larger millstones were turned by asses; &nbsp;Matthew 18:6 "a donkey millstone" (Greek). </p>

<div> '''1: '''''Μύλων''''' ''' (Strong'S #3459 — Noun Masculine — mulon — moo'-lone ) </div> <p> denotes "a mill house," where the millstone is, &nbsp;Matthew 24:41; some mss. have mulos (see next word). In the Sept., &nbsp;Jeremiah 52:11 , "grinding house" (lit., "house of a mill"). </p>