ἅλων
Μή, φίλα ψυχά, βίον ἀθάνατον σπεῦδε, τὰν δ' ἔμπρακτον ἄντλει μαχανάν → Oh! my soul do not aspire to eternal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible
English (LSJ)
ωνος, ἡ,
A = ἅλως (usu. in sense 1), rare in nom., Thphr.Sign. 31 (pl., in sense 11.1), LXX Ho.9.2, BGU651.5 (ii A.D.); more freq. in oblique cases, BCH39.55 (Arcad., iv B.C., in sense of plantation (?)), PLille13.3, Arist.Vent.973a14, LXX Ge.50.10, etc.
German (Pape)
[Seite 113] ωνος, ἡ, die Tenne, Aristot. u. Sp., bes. N. T. in cass. obliquis.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἅλων: -ωνος, ἡ, = ἅλως, εὕρηται δὲ ἐν ταῖς πλαγίαις πτώσεσιν, Ἀριστ. π. Ἀνέμ. 3, Ἀποσπ. 238. 4.
Spanish (DGE)
-ωνος, ἡ
• Alolema(s): tb. ἄλων Hsch.s.u. ἀλωνίζουσα
I huerto, plantel, Schwyzer 664.11, 24 (Orcómeno IV a.C.).
II 1era Arist.Vent.973a14, LXX Ge.50.10, Os.9.2, Ru.3.2, PCair.Zen.176.211 (III a.C.), PSI 173.14 (II a.C.), 1021.27 (II a.C.), PSarap.1.11 (II d.C.), 22a.15 (II d.C.), PPetaus 57.4 (II d.C.), PFlor.355.1 (II d.C.), BGU 651.5 (II d.C.), PLille.13.3, PMich.609.14 (III d.C.), 1Ep.Clem.56.15, I.AI 20.181.
2 parva πατοῦσιν ἅλωνα ἐν ἁμάξαις LXX Is.25.10, διακαθαριεῖ τὴν ἅλωνα Eu.Matt.3.12, cf. Eu.Luc.3.17.
III halo αἱ ἅλωνες περὶ τὴν σελήνην Thphr.Sign.31.
English (Strong)
probably from the base of εἱλίσσω; a threshing-floor (as rolled hard), i.e. (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed): floor.
