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FLOOR.—Used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] (a) in the primary sense of a house-floor, and (b) in the secondary sense of a threshing-floor, the Heb. words for which are quite distinct. Under (a) we have the earthen floor of the Tabernacle, Num_5:17, and the wooden floor of the Temple, 1Ki_6:15 (see House, § 4.) By ‘from floor to floor,’ 1Ki_7:7 RV [Note: Revised Version.] , is meant ‘from floor to ceiling,’ a sense implied in the better reading ‘from the floor to the rafters’; cf. 1Ki_6:15, wherefor ‘walls’ read ‘rafters’ of the ceiling. In Amo_9:3 our EV [Note: English Version.] has obscured the figure ‘the floor of the sea.’
(b) Where ‘floor’ occurs in the sense of ‘threshing-floor’ (see Agriculture, § 3), the latter has been substituted by RV [Note: Revised Version.] except in three passages (Gen_50:11, Isa_21:10, Joe_2:24). The same word (goren) appears as barnfloor (2Ki_6:27, RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘threshing-floor’) and cornfloor (Hos_9:1 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] ).
A. R. S. Kennedy.