λικμάω, -ῶ (λικμός = λίκνον, a winnowing-fan), [in LXX chiefly for זָרָה ni, pi, Rut.3:2 3Ki.14:15, Isa.17:13, Jer.31:10, Dan.2:44, al;] 1) in cl, to winnow (so Ru, l.with). 2) In LXX (ll with, exc. Ru),
to scatter (as chaff or dust): Luk.20:18 (RV, scatter as dust, Deiss, BS, 225 f, quotes ex. in π. which suggests the meaning ruin, destroy; cf. Vg. comminuet, AV, grind to powder; cf. also Kennedy,
Sources, 126), Mat.21:44 [WH], R, txt. (
AS)