Places & biblical world
Threshing floor
A hard, open surface where harvested grain was separated from stalk and chaff.
Also called · threshing place
What it means
Workers threshed the crop and used wind to winnow the lighter chaff from the grain.
Because harvest, ownership, and worship met there, threshing floors could carry economic and symbolic importance.
How it appears in the Bible
Ruth meets Boaz at a threshing floor, and David buys Araunah’s floor as an altar site.
Translation note
Methods and floor construction varied by crop and region.