Strong's G257 · Greek

ἅλων

halon · hal'-ohn

probably from the base of 1507; a threshing-floor (as rolled hard), i.e. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed)

Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

ἅλων (G257)

2 ἅλων , -ωνος (for Attic ἅλως, -ω , v. MM, VGT , s.v.), ἡ , [in LXX chiefly for גֹּרֶן ;] a threshing floor : Mt 3:12 , Lk 3:17 (here prob. by meton. = the grain on the threshing floor).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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