ἅλων
threshing floor
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G257 appears in the Book of Luke — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
αλων — transliterated hálōn — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “threshing floor.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Matthew (50% of all occurrences). It first appears in Matthew 3:12. From the same root come ειλισσω, ελισσω and αλοαω. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G257 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Floor 2×
- American Standard Version: Threshing-floor 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Threshing floor 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Threshing floor 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G257 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G257 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G257 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G257 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a ground plot or threshing floor…
Word origin
Derived from ειλισσω (heilíssō) (G1507) — to roll up.
Probably form the base of G1507 ; a threshing floor (as rolled hard) that is (figuratively) the grain (and chaff as just threshed): - floor.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G257, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αλων appears 41 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 41 verses in 20 books.
- 41
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 41
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 20 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 50:10 ἅλων
- Exodus 22:5 ἅλων
- Numbers 15:20 ἅλων
- Deuteronomy 16:13 ἅλων
- Judges 6:37 ἅλων
- Ruth 3:2 ἅλων
- 1 Samuel 19:22 ἅλων
- 2 Samuel 6:6 ἅλων
- 1 Kings 20:1 ἅλων
- 2 Kings 6:27 ἅλων
- 1 Chronicles 13:9 ἅλων
- 2 Chronicles 3:1 ἅλων
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G257) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 50:10 ἅλων They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
- Genesis 50:11 ἅλων When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, the name of it was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
- Exodus 22:5 ἅλων "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.
- Exodus 22:28 ἅλων "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
- Numbers 15:20 ἅλων Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing floor, so shall you heave it.
- Numbers 18:27 ἅλων Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
- Numbers 18:30 ἅλων Therefore you shall tell them, When you heave the best of it from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine-press.
- Deuteronomy 16:13 ἅλων You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
- Judges 6:37 ἅλων behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.
- Judges 15:5 ἅλων When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
- Ruth 3:2 ἅλων Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.
- Ruth 3:3 ἅλων Wash yourself therefore, and anoint you, and put your clothing on you, and get you down to the threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
- Ruth 3:6 ἅλων She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.
- Ruth 3:14 ἅλων She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.
- 1 Samuel 19:22 ἅλων Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? One said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.
- 1 Samuel 23:1 ἅλων They told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.
- 2 Samuel 6:6 ἅλων When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen stumbled.
- 2 Samuel 24:16 ἅλων When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 2 Samuel 24:18 ἅλων Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 2 Samuel 24:21 ἅλων Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
- 2 Samuel 24:24 ἅλων The king said to Araunah, No; but I will most assuredly buy it of you at a price. Neither will I offer burnt-offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
- 1 Kings 20:1 ἅλων Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
- 2 Kings 6:27 ἅλων He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?
- 1 Chronicles 13:9 ἅλων When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
- 1 Chronicles 21:15 ἅλων God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 21:18 ἅλων Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 21:21 ἅλων As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
- 1 Chronicles 21:22 ἅλων Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price shall you give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
- 1 Chronicles 21:28 ἅλων At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
- 2 Chronicles 3:1 ἅλων Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Job 5:26 ἅλων You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- Job 39:12 ἅλων Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, And gather the grain of your threshing floor?
- Isaiah 25:10 ἅλων For in this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.
- Jeremiah 28:33 ἅλων
- Daniel 2:35 ἅλων Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Hosea 9:1 ἅλων Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; For you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
- Hosea 9:2 ἅλων The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, And the new wine will fail her.
- Hosea 13:3 ἅλων Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.
- Joel 2:24 ἅλων The threshing floors will be full of wheat, And the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
- Micah 4:12 ἅλων But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, Neither do they understand his counsel; For he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
- Zephaniah 2:9 ἅλων Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G257) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
