Word

ἅλων

hálōn · G257 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Thing

Threshing floorThreshing and winnowing36 verses

Meanings

threshing floor

A surface of hard ground or stone where grain was threshed out, either by beating or having animals trample upon it

Examples
Matthew 3:12 “His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Luke 3:17 “His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
threshed grain

(A figurative extension of meaning of ἅλων ‘threshing floor,’) Grain in the process of being threshed

Examples
Matthew 3:12 “His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Luke 3:17 “His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

διακαθαρίζωto clean 1
διακαθαίρωto scour 1

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 2 words

גֹּרֶן gôren · H1637 · threshing floor, threshing floor of Atad: Hebrew גֹּרֶן (gôren, H1637) denotes the physical threshing-floor space where grain is processed, directly corresponding to Greek ἅλων (hálōn, G257) which carries the same literal sense of threshing-floor (as rolled/hardened surface) and extends figuratively to the grain itself as threshed product; both terms refer to the agricultural processing site and share the core semantic domain of grain threshing.
גָּדִישׁ gâdîysh · H1430 · shock, tomb: Hebrew גָּדִישׁ specifically denotes the grain stack/heap itself (the produce after threshing), whereas Greek ἅλων denotes the threshing floor location where the threshing occurs; the terms co-occur in harvest contexts where both the threshing floor and the resulting grain heap are in view (e.g., Ruth 3:2-3 contexts).

Semantic domains 2 entries

Threshed grain3.43: In Matthew 3:12, John the Baptist says the coming one “will thoroughly clear His threshing floor (hálōna); and He will gather His wheat into the barn,” where the word can refer to the threshed grain gathered from the floor.
Threshing floor7.65: In Luke 3:17, the same saying describes clearing “His threshing floor (hálōna),” here naming the physical, leveled place where grain was separated from chaff.

Word family 3 words

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

ἅλωνhálōn · G257ἀλοάω aloáō · G248 · to thresh, to tread out · 3×

Also from the root ἅλων

μητραλῴας mētralṓias · G3389 · one who murders his mother · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ωνος, ἡ (in the Sept. also ὁ, cf. Ruth 3:2; Job 39:12), equivalent to ἡ ἅλως, genitive…

(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: Mt 3:12; Lk 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).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

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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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0