Strong's Concordance halón: a threshing floor Original Word: ἅλων, ωνος, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: halón Phonetic Spelling: (hal'-ohn) Short Definition: a threshing-floor Definition: a threshing-floor. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 257: ἅλωνἅλων, (ωνος, ἡ (in the Sept. also ὁ, cf. Ruth 3:2; Job 39:12), equivalent to ἡ ἅλως, genitive ἅλω, a ground-plot or threshing-floor, i. e., a place in the field itself, made hard after the harvest by a roller, where the grain was threshed out: Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17. In both these passages, by metonymy of the container for the thing contained, ἅλων is the heap of grain, the flooring, already indeed threshed out, but still mixed with chaff and straw, like Hebrew גֹּרֶן, Ruth 3:2; Job 39:12 (the Sept. in each place ἅλωνα); (others adhere to the primary meaning. Used by Aristotle, de vent. 3, Works, 2:973{a} 14). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance floor. Probably from the base of heilisso; a threshing-floor (as rolled hard), i.e. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed) -- floor. see GREEK heilisso Forms and Transliterations άλω άλων αλωνα άλωνα ἅλωνα άλωνας άλωνες άλωνι άλωνος άλωνός alona alōna halona halōna hálona hálōnaLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 2572 Occurrences ἅλωνα — 2 Occ. Matthew 3:12 N-AFS GRK: διακαθαριεῖ τὴν ἅλωνα αὐτοῦ καὶ NAS: and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather KJV: his floor, and INT: he will clear the threshing floor of him and Luke 3:17 N-AFS |
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