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גֹּרֶן H1637

H1637 is the Hebrew word גֹּרֶן, transliterated gôren and said go'-ren. The King James Version most often renders it threshingfloor.

Word: גֹּרֶןTransliteration: gôrenSaid: go'-renLanguage: HebrewIn the KJV: 32 verses

What it means

a threshing-floor (as made even); by analogy, any open area.

Where it comes from

from an unused root meaning to smooth.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 32 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

threshingfloor 15×floor 6×void place 2×out of thy floor 1×corn 1×threshingfloors 1×threshingplace 1×out of the barnfloor 1×like a threshingfloor 1×every cornfloor 1×out of the floor 1×floors 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: (barn, corn, threshing-) floor, (threshing-, void) place.

Verses using גֹּרֶן

All 32 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 50:10 · KJV

And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

Genesis 50:11 · KJV

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

Numbers 15:20 · KJV

Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.

Numbers 18:27 · KJV

And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.

Numbers 18:30 · KJV

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

Deuteronomy 15:14 · KJV

Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

Deuteronomy 16:13 · KJV

Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

Judges 6:37 · KJV

Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.

Ruth 3:3 · KJV

Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.

Ruth 3:6 · KJV

And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.

1 Samuel 23:1 · KJV

Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.

2 Samuel 6:6 · KJV

And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.

2 Samuel 24:16 · KJV

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:18 · KJV

And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:21 · KJV

And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

2 Samuel 24:24 · KJV

And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

1 Kings 22:10 · KJV

And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

2 Kings 6:27 · KJV

And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

1 Chronicles 13:9 · KJV

And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.

1 Chronicles 21:15 · KJV

And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:18 · KJV

Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:21 · KJV

And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

1 Chronicles 21:22 · KJV

Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

1 Chronicles 21:28 · KJV

At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

2 Chronicles 3:1 · KJV

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 18:9 · KJV

And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

Isaiah 21:10 · KJV

O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

Jeremiah 51:33 · KJV

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

Hosea 9:1 · KJV

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

Hosea 9:2 · KJV

The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

Hosea 13:3 · KJV

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Joel 2:24 · KJV

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

Common questions

What does Strong's H1637 mean?

H1637 is the Hebrew word גֹּרֶן (gôren), meaning a threshing-floor (as made even); by analogy, any open area.

How is H1637 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it threshingfloor (15 times), floor (6 times), void place (2 times), out of thy floor (1 time), corn (1 time), among others.

How many times does H1637 appear in the Bible?

גֹּרֶן (gôren) is tagged in 32 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H1637 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from an unused root meaning to smooth.

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