אִדַּר (id.dar)
id.dar
threshing floor
A:N-FQuick Reference
- Language
- Biblical Hebrew
- Testament
- Old Testament
- Occurrences
- 1 verses
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- Part of speech
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Word Overview
The Hebrew noun iddar refers specifically to a threshing floor, an open area where harvested grain was processed. In ancient agriculture, this flat, hard surface allowed workers to beat or trample stalks to separate the edible kernels from the chaff. The word appears only once in the Hebrew Bible, in Daniel 2:35.
Its significance lies in its role within Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a great statue. A stone cut without hands strikes the statue’s feet and becomes a mountain that fills the whole earth. In this context, the iddar serves as the foundation upon which the stone rests after destroying the image. This usage highlights the threshing floor not just as a place of labor, but as a stable ground for divine action.
While other Hebrew words like goren also mean threshing floor, iddar is rare and almost exclusively tied to this apocalyptic vision. The choice of location underscores the permanence of God’s kingdom, which stands firm where human empires once stood. Translators consistently render it as "threshing floor" to preserve the agricultural imagery central to the prophet’s message.
Based on public-domain lexicons (Strong's, Thayer, Gesenius, Brown-Driver-Briggs and others).
What This Word Means for Your Faith
The word iddar refers to a threshing floor, a flat, hard surface where farmers separated grain from chaff by beating or trampling stalks. In Daniel 2:35, this humble agricultural site becomes the resting place for a stone cut without hands. This stone strikes a great statue representing human empires and turns into a mountain that fills the earth.
For your faith, this image offers profound stability. Human kingdoms rise and fall like chaff in the wind, but God’s kingdom stands firm on solid ground. You can trust that divine justice is not fleeting or fragile. It rests securely, enduring where human power once stood. This promise brings hope when you feel overwhelmed by the instability of the world around you.
How it's translated
How this word is rendered word-by-word in the 1 verses where it appears, by frequency.
- threshing floors of1×
Forms in the text
The inflected forms of this word as they appear in Scripture, by frequency.
- אִדְּרֵי\־1×
Key Verses
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Daniel 2:35
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
This verse uniquely places the threshing floor as the foundation for the stone that destroys human empires, highlighting its role as stable ground for divine action.