glean

«glean» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To collect information bit by bit, often with effort: «I… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (glean, gleans, gleaned, gleaning)

meaning for a pupil

1) To collect information bit by bit, often with effort: «I gleaned a few facts from the leaflet.» tree →

2) (old farming, Bible) To gather the grain left in a field after the harvesters have finished; in the Bible, Ruth gleaned in Boaz's field, and farmers were told to leave the edges for the poor. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To glean is to gather the grain or grapes left behind after the harvest. The Torah says these must be left for the poor, the stranger, the orphan and the widow. Interpretation: The gleanings are one of the "gifts to the poor", along with the corner of the field. Tradition sees them as a duty, not a favour. The farmer is only a keeper of what truly belongs to God. In the primary lessons: In school pupils glean facts from texts, charts and sources in history or science. In religion lessons the law of gleaning shows care for the poor and foreigners. Phrases: «glean information from», «glean facts», «glean in the fields».

examples

• And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest. (Torah LEV.19.9, JPS 1917) tree →
• When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. (Torah DEU.24.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God. (Torah LEV.19.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? (Prophets JDG.8.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? (Prophets OBA.1.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• Go not to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens. (Writings RUT.2.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• We gleaned some facts about owls from the book. tree →
• Ruth gleaned barley in the field of Boaz. tree →
• The detective gleaned clues from the muddy footprints. tree →
• Farmers left grain at the edges so the poor could glean. tree →
• What can you glean from this graph? tree →
• I couldn't glean much from his short answer. tree →
• In a second volume, published in the following year, he added other stories gleaned from various minor manuscript collections of great rarity. tree →

note

Regular verb: gleaned. Usually with «from». Fairly formal word in the information sense. A person who gleans is a gleaner.

In the corpora

• Go not to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «glean» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.