גֹּרֶן
gôren · go'-ren
a threshing-floor (as made even); by analogy, any open area
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to smooth;
a threshing-floor (as made even); by analogy, any open area
- a threshing-floor (as made even)
- by analogy, any open area
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (barn, corn, threshing-) floor, (threshing-, void) place.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › the head, the highest › the seed, life continuing
To carry, to lift up of the head, the highest of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גֹּרֶן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the threshingfloor4 · 11%
- in the threshingfloor4 · 11%
- in the floor2 · 6%
- into the floor2 · 6%
- the threshingfloor2 · 6%
- in a void place2 · 6%
- to the threshingfloor1 · 3%
- and out of thy floor1 · 3%
- in thy corn1 · 3%
- to the floor1 · 3%
- unto the floor1 · 3%
- the threshingfloors1 · 3%
- threshingfloor1 · 3%
- was by the threshingplace1 · 3%
- thee? out of the barnfloor1 · 3%
- unto the threshingfloor1 · 3%
- by the threshingfloor1 · 3%
- of this threshingfloor1 · 3%
- him in the threshingfloor1 · 3%
- it into thy barn1 · 3%
- of my floor1 · 3%
- is like a threshingfloor1 · 3%
- upon every cornfloor1 · 3%
- the floor1 · 3%
- out of the floor1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.