Lockman - Bible questions and answers

NASB					Matt 3:12 "His ^Awinnowing⁴⁴²⁵ fork⁴⁴²⁵ is in His hand⁵⁴⁹⁵, and He will thoroughly^1245b clear^1245b His threshing²⁵⁷ floor²⁵⁷; and He will ^Bgather⁴⁸⁶³ His wheat⁴⁶²¹ into the barn⁵⁹⁶, but He will burn²⁶¹⁸ up the ^Cchaff⁸⁹² with ^Dunquenchable⁷⁶² fire⁴⁴⁴²."
AMPLIFIED 2015					Matt 3:12 "His ¹winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear out His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat (believers) into His barn (kingdom), but He will burn up the chaff (the unrepentant) with unquenchable fire."

Amplified 2015 Translator's Notes:
Literal renderings, alternate translations or explanations.

A tool roughly resembling a pitchfork, used to separate grains of wheat from the chaff by throwing the wheat into the air, and allowing the wind to blow away the lighter chaff.

NASB Cross References:
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Is 30:24 Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

Matt 13:30 'Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.""'

Ps 1:4 ¶ The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

Is 66:24 "Then they will go forth and look
On the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their worm will not die
And their fire will not be quenched;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind."

Hebrew-Aramaic & Greek Dictionary:
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Greek Heb.

257

halôn; from halôs (a threshing floor); a threshing floor:--threshing floor(2).

596

apothêkê; from 659; a place for putting away, hence a storehouse:--barn(4), barns(2).

762

asbestos; from 1 (as a neg. pref.) and sbestos (quenched, extinguished); unquenched, unquenchable:--unquenchable(3).

892

achuron; of unc. or.; chaff:--chaff(2).

1245b

diakatharizô; from 1223 and 2511; to cleanse thoroughly:--thoroughly clear(1).

2618

katakaiô; from 2596 and 2545; to burn up:--burn(4), burned(8), burning(1).

4425

ptuon; a prim. word; a winnowing shovel:--winnowing fork(2).

4442

pur; a prim. word; fire:--burning(2), fiery(2), fire(69).

4621

sitos; a prim. word; grain:--grain(2), wheat(12).

4863

sunagô; from 4862 and 71; to lead together, i.e. bring together, hence come together (pass.), entertain:--assemble(1), assembled(5), came together(1), convened(1), gather(10), gather...together(2), gather together(1), gathered(9), gathered...together(3), gathered together(14), gathered...together(1), gathering(3), gathering together(1), invite(2), invited(1), met(2), store(2).

5495

cheir; a prim. word; the hand:--agency(1), charge*(1), grasp(1), hand(82), hands(88), help(1).

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