Dictionary of Bible Themes  »  4000 Creation  »  4400 Vegetation and food  »  4454 gleaning

Picking up grain or fruit left by the harvesters.

Commands concerning gleaning

Leviticus 19:9-10 See also Leviticus 23:22

People involved with gleaning

Ruth 2:2-3,7-8,15-23; Job 24:6

Gleaning used figuratively, to mean something insignificant

Isaiah 17:5-6 See also Judges 8:2; Isaiah 24:13; Jeremiah 6:9; Micah 7:1

See also

4464  harvest
4510  sowing & reaping
5376  law, purpose of
5446  poverty