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In biblical times, the term "floor" often refers to a threshing floor, a significant agricultural and social site in ancient Israelite culture. Threshing floors were open, flat areas where harvested grain was separated from the chaff. These locations were typically situated on elevated ground to take advantage of the wind, which would carry away the lighter chaff when the grain was tossed into the air.

Threshing Floor in Scripture

Threshing floors are mentioned numerous times throughout the Bible, serving both practical and symbolic purposes. One of the most notable references is found in the account of Ruth and Boaz. Ruth, a Moabite widow, approaches Boaz at the threshing floor, seeking his protection and invoking the levirate marriage custom (Ruth 3:6-9). This event is pivotal in the lineage of King David and, ultimately, Jesus Christ.

Another significant mention is the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, which King David purchased to build an altar to the LORD. This site later became the location for Solomon's Temple (2 Samuel 24:18-25; 1 Chronicles 21:18-30). The purchase of the threshing floor underscores the importance of sacrifice and obedience to God.

Symbolism and Spiritual Significance

Threshing floors in the Bible often symbolize judgment and purification. The process of separating grain from chaff is metaphorically used to describe God's judgment, where the righteous are distinguished from the wicked. In Matthew 3:12, John the Baptist speaks of Jesus, saying, "His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

The imagery of the threshing floor also conveys themes of provision and blessing. It is a place where the fruits of labor are gathered and prepared for use, reflecting God's provision for His people. In Joel 2:24, the prophet speaks of a time of restoration, saying, "The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil."

Cultural and Historical Context

Threshing floors were central to the agrarian lifestyle of ancient Israel. They were communal spaces where families and neighbors gathered during the harvest season. The social aspect of the threshing floor is evident in the account of Ruth, where the community plays a role in the unfolding of God's plan.

In addition to their agricultural function, threshing floors were sometimes used for legal and ceremonial purposes. The public nature of these spaces made them suitable for gatherings and important transactions, as seen in the account of David's purchase of Araunah's threshing floor.

Conclusion

The concept of the floor, particularly the threshing floor, is rich with meaning in the biblical narrative. It serves as a backdrop for significant events and teachings, illustrating themes of judgment, provision, and community. Through these references, the Bible reveals the multifaceted role of the threshing floor in the spiritual and daily life of God's people.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Floor

[GABBATHA]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

2. (n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.

3. (n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.

4. (n.) A story of a building. See Story.

5. (n.) The part of the house assigned to the members.

6. (n.) The right to speak.

7. (n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

8. (n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

9. (n.) A horizontal, flat ore body.

10. (v. t.) To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.

11. (v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.

12. (v. t.) To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

FLOOR

flor.

See HOUSE; THRESHING-FLOOR

NACON, THE THRESHING FLOOR OF

na'-kon, (nakhon; the King James Version Nachon): The place where Uzzah was smitten for putting forth his hand to steady the ark, hence, called afterward "Perezuzzah" (2 Samuel 6:8); in the parallel passage (1 Chronicles 13:9) we have kidhon, and in Josephus (Ant., VII, iv, 2) Cheidon. In 1 Samuel 23:23 the word nakhon occurs, and is translated "of a certainty," margin "with the certainty" or "to a set place"; also in 1 Samuel 26:4 it is translated "of a certainty," margin "to a set place." It is uncertain whether in 1 Samuel 6:6 it is a place-name at all; and no successful attempt has been made to identify either Nacon or Chidon; possibly they are both personal names.

E. W. G. Masterman

Greek

257. halon -- a threshing floor
... a threshing floor. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: halon Phonetic
Spelling: (hal'-ohn) Short Definition: a threshing-floor Definition: a ...
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311b. anagaion -- above the ground, ie the second floor, hence, an ...
... 311a, 311b. anagaion. 312 . above the ground, ie the second floor, hence,
an upper room. Transliteration: anagaion Short Definition: room. ...
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508. anogeon -- upper room.
... upper room. From ano and ge; above the ground, ie (properly) the second floor of
a building; used for a dome or a balcony on the upper story -- upper room. ...
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5009. tameion -- an inner chamber
... of a presumed derivative of tamias (a dispenser or distributor; akin to temno, to
cut); a dispensary or magazine, ie A chamber on the ground-floor or interior ...
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5152. tristegon -- the third story
... Word Origin from tristegos (of three stories); from treis and stege Definition
the third story NASB Word Usage third floor (1). third story. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7172. qarqa -- floor
... 7171, 7172. qarqa. 7173 . floor. Transliteration: qarqa Phonetic Spelling:
(kar-kah') Short Definition: floor. Word Origin of uncertain ...
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1637. goren -- threshing floor
... 1636, 1637. goren. 1638 . threshing floor. Transliteration: goren Phonetic
Spelling: (go'-ren) Short Definition: floor. Word Origin ...
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147. iddar -- a threshing floor
... 146, 147. iddar. 148 . a threshing floor. Transliteration: iddar Phonetic
Spelling: (id-dar') Short Definition: floors. ... threshing floor. ...
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7173. Qarqa -- "floor," a place on S. border of Judah
... 7172, 7173. Qarqa. 7174 . "floor," a place on S. border of Judah. Transliteration:
Qarqa Phonetic Spelling: (kar-kah') Short Definition: Karka. ...
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7136. qarah -- to encounter, meet, befall
... appoint, lay make beams, befall, bring, come to pass unto, floor, hap was,
happen unto, A primitive root; to light upon (chiefly ...
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1715. dagan -- corn, grain (of cereals)
... corn floor, wheat. From dagah; properly, increase, ie Grain -- corn ((floor)), wheat.
see HEBREW dagah. 1714, 1715. dagan. 1716 . Strong's Numbers.
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776. erets -- earth, land
... and their lands (1), country (44), countryside (1), distance* (3), dust (1), earth
(655), earth the ground (1), earth's (1), fail* (1), floor (1), ground (119 ...
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6763. tsela -- rib, side
... a door, ie Leaf); hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an
object or the sky, ie Quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or ceiling ...
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3096. Yahats -- a place in Moab
... Or Yahtsah {yah'-tsaw}; or (feminine) Yahtsah {yah-tsaw'}; from an unused root meaning
to stamp; perhaps threshing-floor; Jahats or Jahtsah, a place East of ...
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Library

Living on the Top Floor.
... The Holy Spirit Living on the Top Floor. Then there is a third thing. ... The mental
isn't at the top. It's a step up to the spirit floor, the highest of all. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks with world winners/living on the top floor.htm

The Church Floor
... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First XLII THE CHURCH FLOOR. Mark you the floor?
that square and speckled stone, Which looks so firm and strong,. Is PATIENCE: ...
/.../palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/xlii the church floor.htm

On the First Floor of an Ancient Mansion, in a Street which Slopes ...
... XX. On the first floor of an ancient mansion, in a street which slopes
down towards? On the first floor of an ancient mansion, in ...
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Life on the Top Floor
... V. LIFE ON THE TOP FLOOR. ... He is a three-storied structure. On the ground floor there
dwells the animal. Above that, on the second story, there is the savage. ...
/.../stones rolled away and other addresses to young men/v life on the top.htm

For I am a Man of the Threshing-Floor of Christ...
... Book III. Chapter 12. " 13. For I am a man of the threshing-floor of
Christ? "13. For I am a man of the threshing-floor of ...
/.../writings in connection with the donatist controversy /chapter 12 13 for.htm

Of the Places of Burial.
... altogether in one cave: whence, if any one sells his neighbour a place of burial,
he sells him room for two caves, or hollows on both sides, and a floor in the ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 100 of the places.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, Luke xiii. 21 and 23, Where the ...
... I see the floor, I look for the corn. And hardly is the corn seen, when the floor
is being threshed; but the time is coming, that it shall be winnowed. ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon lxi on the words.htm

Gideon's Fleece
... 'Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece
only ... God makes the fleece wet with dew, while all the threshing-floor is dry. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/gideons fleece.htm

King David's Little Boy.
... Now when he heard that his boy was so ill, the king, who was now a man of middle
age, threw himself upon the floor of his room in the bitterness of his grief ...
/.../anonymous/children of the old testament/king davids little boy.htm

Building a Great Temple
... The entrance to the lower side-chambers was on the south side of the temple. Winding
stairs led to the second floor, and from the second to the third. ...
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Thesaurus

Floor (69 Occurrences)
...Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2. ... (vt) To cover with
a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards. ...
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Grain-floor (27 Occurrences)
Grain-floor. Grain-fields, Grain-floor. Grain-floors . Multi-Version
Concordance Grain-floor (27 Occurrences). Genesis ...
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Threshing-floor (36 Occurrences)
Threshing-floor. Threshingfloor, Threshing-floor. Threshingfloors . Int.
Standard Bible Encyclopedia CHIDON, THE THRESHING-FLOOR OF. ...
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Crushing-floor (4 Occurrences)
Crushing-floor. Crushing, Crushing-floor. Crushing-places .
Multi-Version Concordance Crushing-floor (4 Occurrences). ...
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Barn-floor (1 Occurrence)
Barn-floor. Barnfloor, Barn-floor. Barns . Multi-Version Concordance
Barn-floor (1 Occurrence). 2 Kings 6:27 And he ...
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Corn-floor (1 Occurrence)
Corn-floor. Cornfloor, Corn-floor. Cornices . Multi-Version
Concordance Corn-floor (1 Occurrence). Hosea 9:1 Rejoice ...
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Araunah (14 Occurrences)
... angel, sent to punish David for his vanity in taking a census of the people, was
stayed in his work of destruction near a threshing-floor belonging to Araunah ...
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Threshingfloor (18 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia CHIDON, THE THRESHING-FLOOR OF. ... No name resembling
either of these has been discovered. THRESHING-FLOOR. ...
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Ceiling (7 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ceil. 2. (n.) The inside lining of a room overhead; the
under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor. ...
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Winepress (19 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV WEY ASV NIV). Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay the fulness of
thy threshing-floor and the outflow of thy winepress. The ...
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Resources

What is a threshing floor? | GotQuestions.org

Who was Araunah the Jebusite? | GotQuestions.org

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Floor (69 Occurrences)

Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 3:17
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 16:21
covered with sores and longing to make a full meal off the scraps flung on the floor from the rich man's table. Nay, the dogs, too, used to come and lick his sores.
(WEY)

John 5:6
When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?
(BBE)

John 8:6
They said this, testing him, so that they might have something against him. But Jesus, with his head bent down, made letters on the floor with his finger.
(BBE)

John 8:8
And again, with bent head, he made letters on the floor.
(BBE)

John 19:13
So when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone Floor.
(BBE)

Acts 20:9
and a youth of the name of Eutychus was sitting at the window. This lad, gradually sinking into deep sleep while Paul preached at unusual length, overcome at last by sleep, fell from the second floor and was taken up dead.
(WEY BBE NAS)

Acts 27:39
And when it was day, they had no knowledge of the land, but they saw an inlet of the sea with a floor of sand, and they had the idea of driving the ship up on to it if possible.
(BBE)

James 2:3
and you pay court to the one who wears the fine clothes, and say, "Sit here; this is a good place;" while to the poor man you say, "Stand there, or sit on the floor at my feet;"
(WEY NIV)

Genesis 50:10
They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 50:11
When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 16:14
When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
(See NIV)

Exodus 24:10
And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens.
(BBE)

Numbers 5:17
and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 15:20
Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering: as the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 18:27
Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 18:30
"Therefore you shall tell them,'When you heave its best from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 15:14
you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 16:13
You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 3:25
And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.
(BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 6:37
behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 3:2
Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 3:3
Wash yourself therefore, and anoint yourself, and put your clothing on yourself, and go down to the threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 3:6
She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law told her.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ruth 3:14
She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 6:6
When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 24:16
When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 24:18
Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 24:21
Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 24:24
The king said to Araunah, "No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 6:6
The lowest floor was five cubits broad, and the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for in the thickness of the wall of the house he made resets round about outside, that nothing should be fastened in the walls of the house.
(DBY NIV)

1 Kings 6:8
The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle floor was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.
(DBY NIV)

1 Kings 6:15
He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 6:16
He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls of the ceiling : he built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 6:30
The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:7
He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 22:10
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
(See JPS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 22:35
But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.
(BBE NIV)

2 Kings 6:27
He said, "If Yahweh doesn't help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 16:17
And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.
(BBE)

1 Chronicles 13:9
When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 21:15
God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 21:18
Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 21:21
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 21:22
Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 21:28
At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 18:9
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
(See JPS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 1:6
There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.
(BBE)

Job 5:26
You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
(BBE RSV)

Job 39:12
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 21:10
You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 51:33
For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 37:2
He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 40:17
Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 40:18
And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 41:7
The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.
(BBE NIV)

Ezekiel 41:8
And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 41:16
the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
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Ezekiel 41:20
from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.
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Ezekiel 42:6
For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.
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Daniel 2:35
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
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Daniel 6:24
And at the king's order, they took those men who had said evil against Daniel, and put them in the lions' hole, with their wives and their children; and they had not got to the floor of the hole before the lions overcame them and all their bones were broken.
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Hosea 9:1
Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
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Hosea 9:2
The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
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Hosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
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Amos 9:3
Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
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Micah 4:12
But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
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Subtopics

Floor

Related Terms

Threshing-floors (2 Occurrences)

Grain-floors (1 Occurrence)

Threshingfloor (18 Occurrences)

Threshing-floor (36 Occurrences)

Keilah (16 Occurrences)

Narrower (3 Occurrences)

Sheaves (13 Occurrences)

Sheaf (11 Occurrences)

Floor (69 Occurrences)