ἅλων
hálōn
“a threshing-floor (as rolled hard), i.e. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed)”
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Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
a threshing-floor (as rolled hard), i.e. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
a threshing-floor, a place where corn is trodden out; meton. the corn which is trodden out, Mt. 3:12; Lk. 3:17*
Translated in KJV as
floor
Etymology
probably from the base of G1507 (εἱλίσσω);
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