מְלֵאָה
mᵉlêʼâh · H4395 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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full produce
The entirety of a person's harvest
ExamplesExodus 22:29 You shall not hold back the offering from your entire harvest and your wine. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זֶרַעoffspring, seed 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָדַשׁto consecrate, to sanctify 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָחַרto be delayed 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- בִּכּוּר bikkûwr · H1061 · first fruits
- Hebrew term for first-fruits or early harvest produce; overlaps with מְלֵאָה in referring to early/ripe produce, though בִּכּוּרָה emphasizes temporal priority ('first') while מְלֵאָה emphasizes the state of ripeness/fullness
- תְּבוּאָה tᵉbûwʼâh · H8393 · yield, produce, crops
- Hebrew term for agricultural produce or yield; general term for harvest/produce that could overlap with מְלֵאָה when referring to ripe fruit yield, though תְּבוּאָה is broader and less specific to the ripeness aspect
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὀπώρα opṓra · G3703 · ripe fruit
- Greek term for ripe fruit, particularly autumn fruit harvest; natural translation equivalent for the 'first ripe fruit' sense of מְלֵאָה
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Crops001003001003002
- מְלֵאָה names the first ripe produce of the harvest, as in the command not to delay offering "the fullness of your harvest and the outflow of your presses" (Exodus 22:29).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4395. meleah מְלֵאָה noun feminine fulness, full produce; — ׳מ Num 18:27; Deu 22:9;…
מְלֵאָה noun feminine fulness, full produce; — ׳מ Num 18:27; Deu 22:9; מְלֵאָֽתְךָ Exo 22:28; = full produce of field Exo 22:28, ׳מ הַזֶּרַע the full produce of the seed Deu 22:9; of winepress Num 18:27.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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