Strong's Lexicon
iddar: Threshing floor, heap
Original Word:אִדַּר
Part of Speech:Noun Feminine
Transliteration:iddar
Pronunciation:id-dawr
Phonetic Spelling:(id-dar')
Definition:Threshing floor, heap
Meaning:ample, a threshing-floor
Word Origin:Derived from an unused root meaning to be ample or wide.
Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries:While there is no direct Greek equivalent for "iddar," the concept of a threshing floor can be related to Greek terms like "ἅλων" (halon), which also means threshing floor, as seen in Matthew 3:12.
Usage:The Hebrew word "iddar" is used to denote a "threshing floor" or a "heap," typically referring to a place where grain is processed and separated from chaff. In biblical times, threshing floors were essential for agricultural societies, serving as a communal space for processing harvests.
Cultural and Historical Background:In ancient Israel, threshing floors were often located on elevated, windy sites to facilitate the winnowing process, where the wind would carry away the lighter chaff, leaving the heavier grain. These sites were not only agricultural centers but also held social and religious significance. They were sometimes used as places of judgment or divine encounters, as seen in the account of David purchasing the threshing floor of Araunah (2 Samuel 24:18-25).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin(Aramaic) of foreign origin
Definitiona threshing floor
NASB Translationthreshing floors (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[ K
§ 59 c)] (
id., Syr;
, compare Christian-Palestinian Aramaic Schulth
Lex.3; hence Arabic
as loan-word Frä
136; conjectures on etymology Lag
Ges. Abh. 10 Hoffm
LCB 1882, 320 Jen
ZA vii (1892). 216); — plural construct
Daniel 2:35.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
threshing floor
(Aramaic) intensive, from a root corresponding to'adar; ample, i.e. A threshing-floor -- threshingfloor.
see HEBREW'adar
Forms and Transliterations
אִדְּרֵי־ אדרי־ ’id·də·rê- ’iddərê- idderei
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