Strong’s G257 · Greek
ἅλων
hálōn · hal'-ohn
Origin probably from the base of εἱλίσσω (G1507);
Meaning a threshing-floor (as rolled hard), i.e. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed)
In the King James Version floor.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Matthew 3:12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
- Luke 3:17Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.