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gleaning

Meaning of “gleaning”

The act of gathering after reapers. Gathering what reapers leave; collecting in small detached parcels.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
5 occurrences5 verses4 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Leviticus 23:22

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “gleaning”

KJV PCE
Leviticus 23:22
¶ And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 23:22 · retained source text

¶ And when ye reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not make cleane riddance of the corners of the field, when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy haruest: thou shalt leaue them vnto the poore, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

1611 marginal noteChap. 19.9.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 24.19.

Judges 8:2
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 Abi-ezer?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Judges 8:2 · retained source text

And he said vnto them, What haue I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better then the vintage of Abiezer?

Isaiah 17:6
¶ Yet 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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 17:6 · retained source text

(Yet gleaning-grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an Oliue tree, two or three berries in the toppe of the vppermost bough: foure or fiue in the out-most fruitfull branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

Isaiah 24:13
¶ When 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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 24:13 · retained source text

¶ When thus it shalbe in the midst of the land among the people: there shall be as the shaking of an oliue tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

Jeremiah 49:9
If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 49:9 · retained source text

If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leaue some gleaning grapes? If theeues by night, they will destroy till they haue enough.

1611 marginal noteObad. ver. 5.

1611 marginal noteHeb. their sufficiencie.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

The act of gathering after reapers. Gathering what reapers leave; collecting in small detached parcels.

Webster 1828 facsimile, volume 1, leaf 840