G257: ἅλων
hálōn · “threshing-floor”
Definition
a threshing-floor (as rolled hard), i.e. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed)
KJV translates it as: floor
Word origin: probably from the base of G1507 (εἱλίσσω);
Extended definition
ἅλων, -ωνος
(for Attic ἅλως, -ω, see MM, VGT, see word), ἡ, [in LXX chiefly for גֹּרֶן ;]
a threshing floor: Mat.3:12, Luk.3:17 (here prob. by meton. = the grain on the threshing floor).†
(AS)
(for Attic ἅλως, -ω, see MM, VGT, see word), ἡ, [in LXX chiefly for גֹּרֶן ;]
a threshing floor: Mat.3:12, Luk.3:17 (here prob. by meton. = the grain on the threshing floor).†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G257 is translated
- threshing floor ×2
Bible verses with G257 (hálōn)
Hálōn appears in 2 verses.
- Matthew 3:12
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
- Luke 3:17
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.