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To: mom4melody
I grew up with the Hymnal.....boring. And not always relevant...who knows what a sheave is anyway?

I don't know of any hymns or gospel songs that contain the word "sheave," which is a grooved wheel used in various types of machinery. However, the word "sheaves," the plural of "sheaf"--as in the gospel song "Bringing in the Sheaves--certainly has relevance:

But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
Micah 4:12

48 posted on 06/02/2014 7:47:39 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill; mom4melody

Also, sheaves played a role in Joseph’s dream regarding his brothers.


51 posted on 06/02/2014 7:53:55 AM PDT by Sloth (Rather than a lesser Evil, I voted for Goode.)
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To: Fiji Hill

A sheaf is also a bundle of stalks of grain not separated from their individual stalk. They were cut, bundled or “sheaved together” into a round bundle of a size suitable for the separating and milling of the grain after the “sheaf” was suitably dried.

Micah 4:12 AND ITS SURROUNDING CONTEXT OF VERSES should now be much more understandable for you now! The floor referred to was a “threshing” floor


65 posted on 06/02/2014 9:03:05 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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