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Strong's H1637 גֹּרֶן (goren)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1637 — elaion (“oil”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1637
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 36
Books 17

Strong's H1637 Quick Answer

Strong's H1637 גּוֹרֶן (goren) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. goren (go'-ren) n-m. 1. a threshing- floor (as made even) 2. by analogy, any open area It has 36 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include floor, threshing, thresh, and floors. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
goren (go'-ren) n-m. 1. a threshing- floor (as made even) 2. by analogy, any open area
Usage
36 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
floor, threshing, thresh, and floors

Meaning and Definition

goren (go'-ren) n-m. 1. a threshing- floor (as made even) 2. by analogy, any open area [from an unused root meaning to smooth] KJV: (barn, corn, threshing- )floor, (threshing-, void) place.

Original Word
גּוֹרֶן
Transliteration
goren
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1637. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H1637 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render goren, 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.

floor Genesis 50:11 floors Joel 2:24 thresh Jeremiah 51:33 threshing Isaiah 21:10

How Strong's H1637 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old 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 Old Testament with 36 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1637 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 H1637 in the Old Testament

36 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 50:10 KJV

And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

Genesis 50:11 KJV

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

Numbers 15:20 KJV

Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.

Usage Excerpts

First 36 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1637.

Genesis 50:10 Old Testament, KJV
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Genesis 50:11 Old Testament, KJV
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
Numbers 15:20 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
Numbers 18:27 Old Testament, KJV
And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Numbers 18:30 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
Deuteronomy 15:14 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Deuteronomy 16:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
Judges 6:37 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
Ruth 3:2 Old Testament, KJV
And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.
Ruth 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
Ruth 3:6 Old Testament, KJV
And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.
Ruth 3:14 Old Testament, KJV
And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
1 Samuel 23:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
2 Samuel 6:6 Old Testament, KJV
And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
2 Samuel 24:16 Old Testament, KJV
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Samuel 24:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Samuel 24:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
2 Samuel 24:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
1 Kings 22:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
2 Kings 6:27 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
1 Chronicles 13:9 Old Testament, KJV
And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
1 Chronicles 21:15 Old Testament, KJV
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:18 Old Testament, KJV
Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:21 Old Testament, KJV
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
1 Chronicles 21:22 Old Testament, KJV
Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
1 Chronicles 21:28 Old Testament, KJV
At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
2 Chronicles 3:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 18:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
Job 39:12 Old Testament, KJV
Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
Isaiah 21:10 Old Testament, KJV
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
Jeremiah 51:33 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Hosea 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
Hosea 9:2 Old Testament, KJV
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
Hosea 13:3 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Joel 2:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Micah 4:12 Old Testament, KJV
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1637, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
Ruth 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 6 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 3 usages, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1637 FAQ

What does goren (גֹּרֶן) mean?

Goren (Strong's H1637) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "corn". goren (go'-ren) n-m. 1. a threshing- floor (as made even) 2. by analogy, any open area

How many times is goren (גֹּרֶן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 36 linked usages for Strong's H1637 across 17 books.

Where can I study goren (גֹּרֶן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1637 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate goren (גֹּרֶן)?

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