גֹּ֫רֶן
go.ren
threshing floor
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "go.ren" (Strong's number H1637) refers to a threshing floor. A threshing floor is a specific location on a farmer's land where grains are separated from their chaff (dry, scaly protective leaves that cover growing grains) through the process of threshing. This location is often a flat, hard surface where the grain is beaten or trampled by animals to loosen and separate the grains from their chaff. The word "go.ren" appears 36 times in the Bible, indicating its significance and prominence in ancient agricultural practices. It may have played a role in the social and economic life of ancient Israelites, given its use in a range of contexts, from everyday agricultural activities to sacrificial rituals. The connection between the threshing floor and grain separation highlights the economic importance of agriculture in ancient societies. The use of specific vocabulary for the threshing floor underscores its importance in the daily lives of ancient Israelites. The term's repeated appearance in the Bible may also suggest its significance as a symbolic site, perhaps in rituals of dedication, covenant-making, or communal celebration.
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Occurrences in Scripture
36 total occurrences across the text
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
Isaiah 21:10You 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.
Jeremiah 51:33For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “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 comes for her.”
Hosea 9:1Don’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.
Hosea 9:2The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
Hosea 13:3Therefore 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.
Joel 2:24The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
Micah 4:12But 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.
Genesis 50:10They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
Genesis 50:11When 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.
Numbers 18:27Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
Numbers 15:20Of 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.
Numbers 18:30“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
Deuteronomy 15:14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
Deuteronomy 16:13You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press.
Judges 6:37behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”
Ruth 3:2Now isn’t Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he will be winnowing barley tonight on the threshing floor.
Ruth 3:3Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor; but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
Ruth 3:6She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.
Ruth 3:14She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”
1 Samuel 23:1David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”
2 Samuel 6:6When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.
2 Samuel 24:16When 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 withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Samuel 24:18Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
2 Samuel 24:21Araunah 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.”
2 Samuel 24:24The 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.
1 Kings 22:10Now 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.
2 Kings 6:27He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
1 Chronicles 13:9When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
1 Chronicles 21:15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:18Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:21As 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.
1 Chronicles 21:22Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
1 Chronicles 21:28At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
2 Chronicles 3:1Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 18:9Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah each sat 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.