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Threshing Floor

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ἅλων

(Strong's #257 — Noun Feminine — halon — hal'-ohn )

"a threshing floor," is so translated in Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17 , RV (AV, "floor"), perhaps by metonymy for the grain.

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Threshing Floor'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​t/threshing-floor.html. 1940.
 
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