This name appears in 2 Samuel 6:6 as the owner of the threshing floor where Uzzah died after touching the ark of the covenant. The parallel passage in 1 Chronicles 13:9 calls the same location 'the threshing floor of Kidon,' creating a textual puzzle. Place names in narratives often preserve local memory—this threshing floor became permanently associated with a tragedy, remembered by the landowner's name. Ancient threshing floors were flat, open spaces, often on hilltops to catch the wind, making them natural stopping points for the ark's journey to Jerusalem.