( îִæְøֶä , mizreh', ðôýïí ), a winsowing-shovel, with which grain was thrown up against the wind, in order to cleanse it from the brokensstraw and chaff (Isa_30:24; Jer_15:7; Mat_3:12 ; Luk_3:17). SEE AGRICULTURE. At the present day in Syria, the instrument used is a largee wooden fork. (See Robinson's Researches, 2:277, 371; Smith's Dict. of Class., Antiq. s.v. Pala). Both kinds of instruments are delineated on the Egyptian monuments (Wilkinson, 2:4046). SEE WINNOWING.