Lexicon
מְלֵאָה
me.le.ah
H4395
H:N-F Hebrew

fruit

8
Occurrences
7
Books
Hebrew
Language

me.le.ah describes something as full—of lentils, sheaves, justice, shouts, or plunder—and can denote yield or produce.

The most evident use describes a field, cart, city, or town as full of a stated substance or quality; noun forms occur in contexts of yield, produce, and contribution.

Senses in use

  1. Full of a stated content or quality · dominant

    The adjective marks a thing or place as full: a field of lentils in 2 Samuel 23:11, a cart of sheaves in Amos 2:13, and a city or town marked by justice, shouts, or lies and plunder in Isaiah 1:21, Isaiah 22:2, and Nahum 3:1. In Isaiah 1:21 the form is feminine singular construct; the APB renders the clause "full of justice."

  2. Yield or produce in agricultural contexts · common

    Noun occurrences appear with agricultural yield and contribution: in Deuteronomy 22:9 the APB renders "the whole yield," and in Numbers 18:27 it describes a contribution reckoned like grain from a threshing floor or fruit from a winepress. Exodus 22:28 also has a feminine singular construct noun form, though the supplied APB rendering does not make its specific contribution visible.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB often expresses the adjective with "full of," as in the field, cart, city, and town clauses. For noun occurrences it uses "yield" and refers to grain and fruit; its rendering of Exodus 22:28 does not visibly isolate the term.

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