To glean
לָקַשׁStrong’s H3953laqash (la-qash)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Laqash is the Hebrew word usually translated “glean”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.”
Meaning
- To glean, gather, take the aftermath, take everything(Piel) to despoil, gather everything from, strip
How it's translated
- they glean 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
לָקַשׁ laqash · to glean
1) to glean, gather, take the aftermath, take everything 1a) (Piel) to despoil, gather everything from, strip
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “glean” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GLEAN, verb transitive
- To gather the stalks and ears of grain which reapers leave behind them.“Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn -” Ruth 2:2
- To collect things thinly scattered; to gather what is left in small parcels or numbers, or what is found in detached parcels; as, to glean a few passages from an author.“They gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men” Judges 20:45
All definitions and other forms of “glean”
GLEAN, verb intransitive
To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
- “And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers” Ruth 2:3
GLEAN, noun
A collection made by gleaning, or by gathering here and there a little.
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.