Words the Bible translates as glean
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- laqatלָקַטto pick up scattered items one by one, gathering them off the ground or a surface
- alalעָלַלto glean: to go back over a harvested vine or field and strip off what remains
+2 more meanings
- to work one's will on a person: to deal harshly with them, to make sport of or abuse them
- to thrust or lay something in the dust, or to defile it there (used only of Job and his horn)
- laqashלָקַשׁto gleannot studied yet
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