grind him to powder. Supposed to mean winnow or scatter as dust. But in a Papyrus (Fayyum, second or third cent, A.D.) it is used for ruining a thing in some way. This supplies the contrast here. Occurs else where only in Luk_20:18; Septuagint (Theodotion) for utter destruction, in Dan_2:44. Compare Job_27:21.