Gleaning
עֹלֵלוֹתStrong’s H5955olelah (o-le-lah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Olelah is the Hebrew word usually translated “gleanings”, “gleanings of” and “like gleanings”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?”
Meaning
- Gleaning
How it's translated
- gleanings 3
- gleanings of 1
- like gleanings 1
- like gleanings of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Judges 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Obadiah 1
- Micah 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 17:6Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
- Isaiah 24:13When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
- Jeremiah 49:9If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
- Obadiah 1:5If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
- Micah 7:1Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
Hebrew dictionary
עֹלֵלוֹת olelah · 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.