עֹלֵלָה
olela · gleanings
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5955 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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olela (עֹלֵלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gleanings”.
The little that is left in the vineyard or the field after the harvest and is gathered at the end (Leviticus 19:10).
How to say it
o·le·la
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
- The little left after the harvest, gathered at the end.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- gleanings ×5
- gleaning ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 8:2
He said to them, “What have I done now compared with you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
- Isaiah 17:6
And there will be left in it gleanings, as when beating an olive tree: two, three olives at the top of the highest branch, four, five on its fruitful branches, declares YHWH, Elohim of Israel.
- Isaiah 24:13
For thus it will be in the middle of the earth, among the peoples: like the beating of an olive tree, like the gleanings when the grape harvest is finished.
- Jeremiah 49:9
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, they would destroy only what was enough for them.
- Obadiah 1:5
If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night (how you have been destroyed!), would they not steal only what was enough for them? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
- Micah 7:1
Woe is me! For I have become like the gatherings of summer fruit, like the gleanings of the grape harvest; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that my soul desired.