Floor (Hastings' Dictionary)

The word ' floor ' is now most familiar as the part we tread on in a room ; but it once as readily suggested' the platform on which com was threshed. Hence in AV (after earlier VSS) ' floor ' stands as the tr" of pi gOren, fourteen times, which elsewhere is mostly tr'' ' threshing- floor.' The Heb. word occurs altogether 36 times : it is tr<i ' thresh- Infr-floor' (1811 two sep. words) 19 times (On 6I110, Nu IS-M l!,i7. 30 Ru 35, 1 S 231, 2 8 6' 24I8- »!• ", 1 Ch 139 2111- 18.21.

22 23, 2 Ch 31, Jer 61S3), and ' floor' 11 times (On SO'i, Dt LSH, Jg637, Ru 33- «■ ", Is 2110, Ho3 92 133, Ji 2»i, Mic 412).

RV pves ' threshing-floor ' everywhere except Gn SOU, Is 2111', and Jl 22i, retaining floor ' in these places Elsewhere g6ren is tr ' barn- floor' 2K 6" (1611 'bam floor'; BV 'threshing-floor'), ' thrcshingplace' 2 S 2418 (1611 'threshing place,' RV 'thresh- ing-floor'); 'a void place' 1 K 22io=2 Ch 189 (RV 'an open place '), • bam ' Job 3912 (rv ' threshing-floor '), ' com ' Dt 16" ('after that thou hast gathered in thy com and thy wine,' RV 'after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy wine-press'), and in Hos9i [all] the fuller phrase hoi- gomdth ddgdn is tpl ' cornfloor ' (1611 ' com floor ').

The only other OT word is tix 'iddar, which occurs onlv Dn 2" and is tr'' ' threshing floor ' (o:!!^"!!!, EV 'summer threshing-floors'). In NT aXwi- occurs only Mt 3'-, Lk 3" and is tr'' 'floor,' RV 'threshing-floor.' In Apocr. area is tr'' 'floor' 2Es 4=12 (so RV), 4'-'» (RV 'threshing- floor '). See Agriculture. For the floor of a room see HOUSE. J. HAi5TINGS.