Gleaning
לֶ֫קֶטStrong’s H3951leqet (le-qet)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Leqet is the Hebrew word usually translated “remnant of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.”
Meaning
- Gleaning
How it's translated
- and remnant of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
לֶ֫קֶט leqet · gleaning
gleaning
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gleaning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GLE'ANING, participle present
tense Gathering what reapers leave; collecting in small detached parcels.
All definitions and other forms of “gleaning”
GLE'ANING, noun
The act of gathering after reapers.
- That which is collected by gleaning
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.