Quick Definition
a threshing-floor
Strong's Definition
a threshing-floor (as rolled hard), i.e. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed)
Derivation: probably from the base of G1507 (εἱλίσσω);
KJV Usage: floor
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἅλων, (ωνος, ἡ (in the Sept. also ὁ, cf. Rth_3:2; Job_39:12), equivalent to ἡ ἅλως, genitive ἅλω, a ground-plot or threshing-floor, i. e., a place in the field itself, made hard after the harvest by a roller, where the grain was threshed out: Mat_3:12; Luk_3:17. In both these passages, by metonymy of the container for the thing contained, ἅλων is the heap of grain, the flooring, already indeed threshed out, but still mixed with chaff and straw, like Hebrew βΙΜψΖο, Rth_3:2; Job_39:12 (the Sept. in each place ἅλωνα); (others adhere to the primary meaning. Used by Aristotle, de vent. 3, Works, 2:973{a} 14).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἅλων halōn 2x
a threshing-floor, a place where corn is trodden out; meton. the corn which is trodden out, Mat_3:12 ; Luk_3:17
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἅλων , -ωνος
(for Attic ἅλως , -ω , v. MM , VGT , s.v. ), ἡ ,
[in LXX 23 chiefly for H1637 ;]
a threshing floor: Mat_3:12 , Luk_3:17 (here prob. by meton . = the grain on the threshingfloor).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἅλων [page 24]
The old form ἅλως , in the Attic declension, is still very much more common in papyri, e.g. P Fay 112 18 f. (A.D. 99) μὴ σπουδασέτωσαν ἅλω , do not let them be in a hurry with the threshing-floor, P Lond 314 17 (A.D. 149) ( = II. p. 190) ἐφ᾽ ἅλ̣ω̣ τῶν ἐδα̣φῶν , i.e. as soon as the corn is threshed; but the NT third declension form is found in P Tebt I. 84 8 (B.C. 118) ἁλώνωι ( = ων , see Proleg. p. 49), PSI 37 1 (A.D. 82) ἐφ᾽ ἁλώνων , BGU II. 651 5 (ii/A.D.), ib. III. 759 11 (ii/A.D.), P Strass I. 10 20 (iii/A.D.), P Lond 1239 13 (A.D. 278 81) ( = III. p. 52), and ib. 976 7 (A.D. 315) ( = III. p. 231). See further Crφnert Mem. Herc. , p. ix. The derivative ἡ ἁλωνία , the space reserved for a threshing-floor, occurs P Tebt II. 346 6 (early i/A.D.), BGU I. 146 8 (ii/iii A.D.), P Lond, 1170 verso 394 (A.D. 258 9) ( = III. p. 202), and P Oxy X. 1255 8 (A.D. 292).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἅλων [Etym: = ἅλως] [Etym: found in the obl. cases, Arist. ]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
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)