Olelah עֹלֵלוֹת
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| עֹלֵלוֹת | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | olelah |
| Strong's number | H5955 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | gleaning |
| Occurrences | 6 in 6 verses |
| Most frequent in | Isaiah (2) |
Olelah (Hebrew עֹלֵלוֹת, Strong's H5955) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “gleaning”. It occurs 6 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
gleaning
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | grapes (4), gleaning (1), grapegleanings (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | gleanings (2), yet gleanings (1), like a gleaning (1), some gleanings (1), gleaning (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Olelah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Judges
- Judges 8:2And 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?But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
Isaiah
- 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.Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the 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.So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
Jeremiah
- 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.If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?
Obadiah
- 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?“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night— oh, how you will be ruined— would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
Micah
- 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.Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).