Judges 8:16

and with them he taught Read, changing one letter, threshed as in Judges 8:7, with LXX. B ἠλόησεν, A κατέξανεν. The Vulgate gives a double rendering: et contrivit cum eis, atque comminuit viros Soccoth. Peshitto and Targ. paraphrase. The meaning seems to be that Gideon dragged thorns and teasels over their prostrate bodies, i.e. carded them; a form of torture well known in antiquity. For -threshing" in this metaphorical sense cf. Amos 1:3; Micah 4:13; Isaiah 41:15.