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)

to winnow; to scatter