Ear
מְלִילָהStrong’s H4425melilah (me-li-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Melilah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ears of corn”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.”
Meaning
- Ear (of wheat), head (of wheat)
How it's translated
- ears of corn 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מְלִילָה melilah · ear
ear (of wheat), head (of wheat)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
E'AR, noun
[Latin auris, whence auricula; audio.]
- The organ of hearing; the organ by which sound is perceived; and in general, both the external and internal part is understood by the term.
- The sense of hearing, or rather the power of distinguishing sounds and judging of harmony; the power of nice perception of the differences of sound, or of consonances and dissonances.
- In the plural, the head or person.
- The top, or highest part.
All definitions and other forms of “ear”
- A favorable hearing; attention; heed; regard.
- Disposition to like or dislike what is heard; opinion; judgment; taste.
- Any part of a thing resembling an ear; a projecting part from the side of any thing; as the ears of a vessel used as handles.
- The spike of corn; that part of certain plants which contains the flowers and seeds; as an ear of wheat or maiz.
EAR, verb intransitive
To shoot, as an ear; to form ears, as corn.
EAR, verb transitive
[Latin aro.]
To plow or till.
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.