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Word

ἀλοάω

aloáō · G248 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to thresh, to tread out

    To separate grain from the husks of plants, either by beating or by being tread on by farm animals

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 9:9 For it is written in the Law of Moses: “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE IT IS THRESHING.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?

    1 Corinthians 9:10 Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops.

    1 Timothy 5:18 For the Scripture says, “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE IT IS THRESHING,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
דּוּשׁ dûwsh · H1758 · to tread out, to thresh, to trample
Standard Hebrew verb for threshing grain by treading, the direct translation equivalent for ἀλοάω in agricultural contexts (e.g., Deut 25:4, 1 Cor 9:9 citation).
Semantic domains 1 entry
To thresh, to tread out43.19
In 1 Corinthians 9:9, Paul quotes the Law: “YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE IT IS THRESHING (alṓnta),” describing an ox treading out grain on the threshing floor.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἅλων hálōn · G257 · threshing floor, threshed grain · 2×ἀλοάωaloáō · G248
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ῶ; (connected with ἡ ἅλως or ἡ ἀλωή, the floor on which grain is trodden or threshed…
(ῶ; (connected with ἡ ἅλως or ἡ ἀλωή, the floor on which grain is trodden or threshed out); to thresh, (Ammon. τό ἐπί τῇ ἅλω πατεῖν καί τρίβειν τάς στάχυας): (1 Cor 9:9),1 Cor 9:10; 1 Tim 5:18 (Deut 25:4). In secular authors from Aristophanes, Plato down.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Agriculture3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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