Fruit
מְלֵאָהStrong’s H4395meleah (me-le-ah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meleah is the Hebrew word usually translated “full produce your”, “like the full produce” and “full produce”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.”
Meaning
- Fulness, full produce
How it's translated
- full produce your 1
- and like the full produce 1
- the full produce 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 18:27And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
- Deuteronomy 22:9Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
Hebrew dictionary
מְלֵאָה meleah · fruit
fulness, full produce
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fruit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FRUIT, noun
[Latin fructus. The Latin word is the participle of fruor, contracted from frugor, or frucor, to use, to take the profit of.]
- In a general sense, whatever the earth produces for the nourishment of animals, or for clothing or profit.
- In a more limited sense, the produce of a tree or other plant; the last production for the propagation or multiplication of its kind; the seed of plants, or the part that contains the seeds; as wheat, rye, oats, apples, quinces, pears, cherries, acorns, melons, etc.
- In botany, the seed of a plant, or the seed with the pericarp.
- Production; that which is produced.“The fruit of the spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth” Ephesians 5:9
All definitions and other forms of “fruit”
- The produce of animals; offspring; young; as the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
- Effect or consequence.“They shall eat the fruit of their doings” Isaiah 3:10
- Advantage; profit; good derived.“What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?” Romans 6:21
- Production, effect or consequence; in an ill sense; as the fruits of sin; the fruits of intemperance.
FRUIT, verb intransitive
To produce fruit [Not well authorized.]
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.