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GRINDER . The ‘grinders’ of Ecclesiastes 12:3 are women grinding at the mill. But in Job 29:17 m the ‘grinders’ are the molar teeth. Holland, Pliny , xi. 37, says, ‘The great grinders which stand beyond the eye-teeth, in no creature whatsoever do fall out of themselves.’

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Grinder'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​g/grinder.html. 1909.
 
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