מְלִילָה
mᵉlîylâh · H4425 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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an ear of grain
The uppermost part of a grain plant, which contains the seeds
ExamplesDeuteronomy 23:25 “When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you are not to use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָטַףto pluck 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- שִׁבֹּל shibbôl · H7641 · stream, flood, ear of grain
- Common Hebrew term for an ear of grain; can be used interchangeably with מְלִילָה to refer to the seed head of cereal crops
In the other Testament 1 word
- στάχυς stáchys · G4719 · ear of wheat, head of wheat
- Greek translation equivalent for the Hebrew term meaning an ear of grain; both refer to the seed-bearing head of cereal plants
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Plants001002007001
- מְלִילָה, occurring once in Deuteronomy 23:25, names an ear of standing grain, permitted to be plucked and eaten by hand while passing through a neighbor's field.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4425. melilah [מְלִילָה] noun feminine ear of wheat, etc. (perhaps as rubbed or scraped,…
[מְלִילָה] noun feminine ear of wheat, etc. (perhaps as rubbed or scraped, compare Late Hebrew מְלִילוֺת הַמּוֺלֵל); — only plural absolute מְלִילוֺת Deuteronomy 23:26 (compare Di).
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
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