THRESHING FLOOR (גֹּ֫רֶן, H1755; ἅλων, G272). A level, circular area twenty-five to forty ft. in diameter, it was constructed in or near the grain field, preferably on an elevated spot exposed to the wind. It was prepared by removing the loose stones (by which a grain-containing border is made), then wetting and tamping the ground, and finally sweeping it. Joseph camped at a threshing floor (Gen 50:10). David built an altar and Solomon, the Temple on a former threshing floor (2 Sam 24:18ff., 2 Chron 3:1). Ruth visited Boaz at his threshing floor (Ruth 3:3); and prophets used the term fig. (Mic 4:12).