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Strong's G257 ἅλων (halon)

Halon means “floor” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H257 — achban (“Ahban”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G257
Language Greek
Linked Usages 45
Books 23

Strong's G257 Quick Answer

Strong's G257 ἅλων (halon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. halon (hal'-own) n. 1. a threshing-floor (as rolled hard) 2. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed) It has 45 linked Bible usages across 23 books. Visible English usage signals include chaff. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Meaning
halon (hal'-own) n. 1. a threshing-floor (as rolled hard) 2. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed)
Usage
45 linked usages
Books
23 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Usage Words
chaff

Meaning and Definition

halon (hal'-own) n. 1. a threshing-floor (as rolled hard) 2. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed) [probably from the base of G1507] KJV: floor Root(s): G1507

Original Word
ἅλων
Transliteration
halon
Derivation
Root: εἱλίσσω R1: 1507
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G257. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

threshing-floor

Usage: ἅλων, -ωνος (for Attic ἅλως, -ω, see MM, VGT, see word), ἡ, [in LXX chiefly for גֹּרֶן ;] a threshing floor: Mat.3:12, Luk.3:17 (here prob. by meton. = the grain on the threshing floor).† (AS)

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How Strong's G257 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render halon, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

chaff Matthew 3:12

How Strong's G257 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 43 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G257 (ἅλων) appears 43 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G257 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G257 in the New Testament

2 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 3:12 KJV

Whose 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 3:17 KJV

Whose 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.

Strong's G257 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

43 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 1:12 Septuagint / Brenton

And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 50:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they bewailed him with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

Genesis 50:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And the inhabitants of the land of Canaan saw the mourning at the floor of Atad, and said, This is a great mourning to the Egyptians; therefore he called its name, The mourning of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan.

Usage Excerpts

First 45 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G257.

Genesis 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 50:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they bewailed him with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Genesis 50:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the inhabitants of the land of Canaan saw the mourning at the floor of Atad, and said, This is a great mourning to the Egyptians; therefore he called its name, The mourning of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan.
Exodus 22:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if fire have gone forth and caught thorns, and should also set on fire threshing floors or ears of corn or a field, he that kindled the fire shall make compensation.
Exodus 22:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not keep back the firstfruits of thy threshing floor and press. The firstborn of thy sons thou shalt give to me.
Numbers 15:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall offer your bread a heave offering: as a heave offering from the threshing floor, so shall ye separate it,
Numbers 18:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And your heave offerings shall be reckoned to you as corn from the floor, and an offering from the winepress.
Numbers 18:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say to them, When ye shall offer the firstfruits from it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing floor, and as produce from the winepress.
Deuteronomy 16:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt keep for thyself the feast of tabernacles seven days, when thou gatherest in thy produce from thy corn floor and thy winepress.
Judges 6:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
behold, I put the fleece of wool in the threshing floor: if there be dew on the fleece only, and drought on all the ground, I shall know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said.
Judges 15:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he set fire to the torches, and sent the foxes into the corn of the Philistines; and everything was burned from the threshing floor to the standing corn, and even to the vineyard and olives.
Ruth 3:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose damsels thou wast? behold, he winnows barley this night in the floor.
Ruth 3:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But do thou wash, and anoint thyself, and put thy raiment upon thee, and go up to the threshing floor: do not discover thyself to the man until he has done eating and drinking.
Ruth 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law enjoined her.
Ruth 3:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she lay at his feet until the morning; and she rose up before a man could know his neighbor; and Boaz said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
1 Kingdoms 19:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Saul was very angry, and went himself also to Ramah, and he comes as far as the well of the threshing floor that is in Secu; and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? and they said, Behold, in Naioth in Ramah.
1 Kingdoms 23:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it was told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines war in Keilah, and they rob, they trample on the threshing floors.
2 Kingdoms 6:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they come as far as the threshing floor of Nacon: and Uzzah reached forth his hand to the ark of God to keep it steady, and took hold of it; for the ox shook it out of its place.
2 Kingdoms 24:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of the Lord stretched out his hand against Jerusalem to destroy it, and the Lord repented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough now, withhold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Kingdoms 24:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Gad came to David in that day, and said to him, Go up, and set up to the Lord an altar in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Kingdoms 24:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? and David said, To buy of thee the threshing floor, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be restrained from off the people.
2 Kingdoms 24:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king said to Araunah, Nay, but I will surely buy it of thee at a fair price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God a whole burnt offering for nothing. So David purchased the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
3 Kingdoms 20:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, near the threshing floor of Ahab king of Samaria.
4 Kingdoms 6:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to her, Unless the Lord help thee, whence shall I help thee? from the corn floor, or from the winepress?
1 Chronicles 13:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they came as far as the threshing floor: and Uzzah put forth his hand to hold the ark, because the bullock moved it from its place.
1 Chronicles 21:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and repented for the evil, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice thee; withhold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David, that he should go up to erect an altar to the Lord, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David came to Ornan; and Ornan came forth from the threshing floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles 21:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David said to Ornan, Give me thy place of the threshing floor, and I will build upon it an altar to the Lord: give it me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease from among the people.
1 Chronicles 21:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
At that time when David saw that the Lord answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he also sacrificed there.
2 Chronicles 3:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in the mount of Moriah, where the Lord appeared to his father David, in the place which David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Job 5:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, Or as a heap of the corn flour collected in proper time.
Job 39:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, And bring it in to thy threshing floor?
Isaiah 25:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with wagons.
Jeremiah 28:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus saith the Lord, The houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while, and her harvest shall come.
Daniel 2:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then once for all the earthenware, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold, were ground to powder, and became as chaff from the summer threshing floor; and the violence of the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them: and the stone which had smitten the image became a great mountain, and filled all the earth.
Hosea 9:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as other nations: for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God; thou hast loved gifts upon every threshing floor.
Hosea 9:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The threshing floor and winepress knew them not, and the wine disappointed them.
Hosea 13:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and as a vapor from tears.
Joel 2:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the floors shall be filled with corn, and the presses shall overflow with wine and oil.
Micah 4:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they know not the thought of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: for he has gathered them as sheaves of the floor.
Zephaniah 2:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah; and Damascus shall be left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate forever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
Haggai 2:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
consider in your hearts, whether this shall be known on the corn floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive trees that bear no fruit are with you: from this day will I bless you.
Matthew 3:12 New Testament, KJV
Whose 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 3:17 New Testament, KJV
Whose 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.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G257, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ruth 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament

Strong's G257 FAQ

What does halon (ἅλων) mean?

Halon (Strong's G257) is a Greek word most simply glossed "floor". halon (hal'-own) n. 1. a threshing-floor (as rolled hard) 2. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed)

How many times is halon (ἅλων) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 45 linked usages for Strong's G257 across 23 books.

Where can I study halon (ἅλων) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G257 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

What English words translate halon (ἅλων)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as chaff. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G257 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 43 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G257, with linked reader references where each row is available.