Word Summary
aloaō: to thresh
Original Word: ἀλοάωTransliteration: aloaō
Phonetic Spelling: (al-o-ah'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to thresh
Meaning: to thresh
Strong's Concordance
thresh, tread out the corn.
From the same as halon; to tread out grain -- thresh, tread out the corn.
see GREEK halon
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 248: ἀλοάωἀλοάω,
(ῶ; (connected with
ἡ ἅλως or
ἡ ἀλωή, the floor on which grain is trodden or threshed out);
to thresh, (Ammon.
τό ἐπί τῇ ἅλω πατεῖν καί τρίβειν τάς στάχυας):
1 Corinthians 9:(9),10;
1 Timothy 5:18 (
Deuteronomy 25:4). In secular authors from
Aristophanes,
Plato down.