ΑΛΩΝΟΣ, αλωνος
ALŌNOS, alōnos
Sounds Like: ah-LOH-nos
Translations: (of) a threshing floor, (of) a barn, (of) a granary
From the root: ΑΛΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a threshing floor, which was a hard, level piece of ground where grain was threshed to separate the edible part from the chaff. It can also refer to a barn or granary, a place where threshed grain was stored. In ancient agricultural societies, the threshing floor was a vital part of the harvest process.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0257 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 56:15
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 7 — 4:81
Pseudo-Baruch
- The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 6:7
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 22:29
- Deuteronomy — 16:13
- Judges — 15:5
- 2 Kings — 6:27
- 1 Chronicles — 13:9
- Job — 5:26
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:35
- Hosea — 13:3
- Micah — 4:12
- Zephaniah — 2:9
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 13:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΛΩΝ.
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.
- ΑΛΟΝ — threshing floor, a threshing floor, threshing, to thresh, to grind, to be ground
- ΑΛΩΝ — threshing floor, a threshing floor
- ΑΛΩΝΑ — threshing floor, a threshing floor, barn, a barn, granary, a granary
- ΑΛΩΝΑΜ — threshing floor, a threshing floor
- ΑΛΩΝΑΣ — threshing floor, a threshing floor
- ΑΛΩΝΕ — threshing floor, a threshing floor, barn, a barn
- ΑΛΩΝΕΣ — threshing floors, barns, granaries
- ΑΛΩΝΙ — threshing floor, a threshing floor, (to) a threshing floor
- ΑΛΩΝΟΥΣ — threshing floor, a threshing floor
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