melea · full harvest

What it means

melea (מְלֵאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “full harvest”.

What fills: the full harvest.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. All that is gathered: what fills the granary and the winepress.
2. To be full of something, good or bad.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• full ×6
• first of your harvest ×1
• whole yield ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Isaiah×2
• Amos×1
• Nahum×1

• Exodus 22:29

  You shall not delay offering the first of your harvest and of your press. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.

• Numbers 18:27

  And your contribution shall be counted to you as the grain from the threshing floor, and as the full produce from the winepress.

• Deuteronomy 22:9

  You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds, so that the whole yield, the seed that you sow and the produce of the vineyard, does not become holy.

• 2 Samuel 23:11

  After him was Shammah son of Agee, the Hararite. The Philistines gathered in a troop, and there was there a plot of the field full of lentils; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

• Isaiah 1:21

  How the faithful city has become a prostitute! Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

• Isaiah 22:2

  full of shouting, a tumultuous city, an exultant town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

• Amos 2:13

  Look, I am making the ground creak under you, as the cart creaks that is full of sheaves.

• Nahum 3:1

  Woe to the city of blood! All of it is full of lies and plunder; the prey does not depart.