noun · feminine
halōnas
Strong’sG257
a threshing-floor
stem halōn-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἅλων, -ωνος
(for Attic ἅλως, -ω, v. MM, VGT, s.v.), ἡ, [in LXX chiefly for גֹּרֶן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G257 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhal'-ohn
a threshing-floor (as rolled hard), i.e. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed)
Fromprobably from the base of G1507;
King Jamesfloor.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
={ἅλως} (usually in sense 1), rare in nominative, LXX+4th c.BC+; more frequently in oblique cases, Refs 4th c.BC+, in sense of plantation (?)), LXX+4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | halōnas | halōnais |
| object accusative | halōnan2×ἅλωνα | halōnain |
| direct address vocative | halōnar | halōnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | halōnau | halōnaiu |
| to, for dative | halōna | halōnai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
halōna is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
halōnan“threshing floor”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 3:12… ta cheira autou, kai diakatharizati tan halōnan autou kai sunagati ton siton autou …… in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into …
Luke 3:17… en ta cheira autou diakathairara tan halōnan autou kai sunagara ton siton eis …… in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into …