STRONGS G257:
ἅλων,
-ωνος,
ἡ, (in
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 (
Sept. in each place
ἅλῶνα); [others adhere to the primary meaning. Used by Aristotle, de vent. 3, Works, 2:973
a 14].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's
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Ruth
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3:2; 3:2
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Job
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39:12; 39:12
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Matthew
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3:12
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Luke
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3:17