goren · threshing floor

What it means

goren (גֹּרֶן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “threshing floor”.

Flat ground where grain is threshed; also any open, level place.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The place where grain is separated from chaff.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• threshing floor ×33
• threshing floors ×3

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• Ruth×4
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×5
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×6
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×3
• Joel×1
• Micah×1

• Genesis 50:10

  They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a great and very solemn lamentation; and he observed a mourning of seven days for his father.

• Genesis 50:11

  When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

• Numbers 15:20

  Of the first of your dough you shall set apart a loaf as a contribution; like the contribution of the threshing floor, so you shall set it apart.

• Numbers 18:27

  And your contribution shall be counted to you as the grain from the threshing floor, and as the full produce from the winepress.

• Numbers 18:30

  And you shall say to them, ‘When you set apart the best of it from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress.

• Deuteronomy 15:14

  You shall provide for him liberally from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your winepress; as YHWH your Elohim has blessed you, you shall give to him.

• Deuteronomy 16:13

  The Feast of Booths you shall celebrate for yourself seven days, when you gather in from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

• Judges 6:37

  look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and on all the land dryness, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

• Ruth 3:2

  And now, is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you have been? Look, he is winnowing the threshing floor of barley tonight.

• Ruth 3:3

  So wash yourself, anoint yourself, put your cloak on you, and go down to the threshing floor; do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

• Ruth 3:6

  So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.

• Ruth 3:14

  So she lay at his feet until the morning, and rose before a man could recognize his companion; and he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

• 1 Samuel 23:1

  They told David, saying, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are plundering the threshing floors.”

• 2 Samuel 6:6

  When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of Elohim and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

• 2 Samuel 24:16

  When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, YHWH relented concerning the evil and said to the angel who was destroying among the people, “Enough! Now withdraw your hand.” And the angel of YHWH was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

• 2 Samuel 24:18

  Gad came to David on that day and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to YHWH on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

• 2 Samuel 24:21

  Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy from you the threshing floor, to build an altar to YHWH, so that the plague may be stopped from the people.”

• 2 Samuel 24:24

  The king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; and I will not offer up to YHWH my Elohim burnt offerings for nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

• 1 Kings 22:10

  Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

• 2 Kings 6:27

  He said, “If YHWH does not save you, from where shall I save you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”

• 1 Chronicles 13:9

  They came to the threshing floor of Chidon, and Uzzah reached out his hand to take hold of the ark, for the oxen stumbled.

• 1 Chronicles 21:15

  Elohim sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was destroying it, YHWH saw and relented concerning the evil, and said to the angel who was destroying, “Enough! Now drop your hand.” And the angel of YHWH was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 1 Chronicles 21:18

  The angel of YHWH said to Gad to tell David that David should go up to set up an altar to YHWH on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 1 Chronicles 21:21

  David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David, and he went out from the threshing floor and bowed down to David with his face to the ground.

• 1 Chronicles 21:22

  David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to YHWH. Give it to me for the full price, so that the plague may be held back from the people.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:28

  At that time, when David saw that YHWH had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

• 2 Chronicles 3:1

  Solomon began to build the house of YHWH in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where he had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 2 Chronicles 18:9

  Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, dressed in their robes; they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

• Job 39:12

  Will you believe of him that he will bring back your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

• Isaiah 21:10

  My threshed one, and son of my threshing floor: what I have heard from YHWH Tsevaot, Elohim of Israel, I have declared to you.

• Jeremiah 51:33

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, Elohim 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 will come for her.

• Hosea 9:1

  Do not rejoice, Israel, with exultation like the peoples, for you have prostituted yourself away from your Elohim; you have loved a prostitute's wages on all the threshing floors of grain.

• Hosea 9:2

  Threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail her.

• Hosea 13:3

  Therefore they will be like a morning cloud, and like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that is swept by the storm from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a window.

• Joel 2:24

  And the threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

• Micah 4:12

  But they do not know the thoughts of YHWH, and they do not understand his counsel, for he has assembled them like sheaves to the threshing floor.