ἈΛΟΩΝ, ἀλοων
ALOŌN, aloōn
Sounds Like: ah-loh-OHN
Translations: threshing, treading out, grinding, a threshing, a treading out
From the root: ἈΛΟΑΩ
Part of Speech: Participle, Adjective, Adverb
Explanation: This word is a present active participle derived from the verb 'ἀλοάω', meaning 'to thresh' or 'to tread out grain'. It describes the action of separating grain from its husks, typically by animals treading on it. As a participle, it can function as an adjective, describing something that is threshing, or as an adverb, indicating an action that is happening while something else occurs.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0248 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 7 — 13:330
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Chronicles — 21:20
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 1 Corinthians — 9:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΛΟΑΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΛΟΑ — tread, thresh, beat, grind, bruise
- ἈΛΟΗΣ — thresh, grind, trample, beat out
- ἈΛΟΗΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will thresh, they will beat out
- ἈΛΟΗΣΩ — I will thresh, I will tread out, I will bruise, I will crush
- ἈΛΟΩΝΤΑ — threshing, treading out grain, a thresher, one who threshes
- ἈΛΟΩΝΤΑΣ — threshing, treading out, grinding
- ἨΛΟΗΣΕΝ — thresh, beat, trample, crush
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