לֶ֫קֶט
gleaning
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3951 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 2 verses
- Leviticus 19:9 וְ/לֶ֥קֶט conj + n c ms cs "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
- Leviticus 23:22 וְ/לֶ֥קֶט conj + n c ms cs "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'"
About this entry
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לקט (leqeṭ) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “gleaning.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Leviticus dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. Debuting at Leviticus 19:9, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include לקט and ילקוט. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3951 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Any gleaning 1×, Gleanings 1×
- American Standard Version: Gleaning 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gleanings 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gleaning of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3951 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3951 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3951 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3951 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- gleaning
Word origin
לֶ֫קֶט n.[m.] gleaning, i.e. what is or may be gleaned
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from לקט (lâqaṭ) (H3950) — to gather.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
לָקַט
- (b. h.) [to seize,]
- 1. to gather, glean; to pick, v. Pi.—Part. לוֹקֵט gleaner, huckster, v. לָקוֹט.
- 2. (in sewing) to gather, pucker. M. Kat. 26ᵃ bot. ללוֹקְטָן ולעשותן כמין סולמות to mend (the rents for the dead) by gathering or making a sort of stairs (chain-stitches), v. סוּלָּם.
- same,
- 1. to pick, harvest; to pick up, collect. Tosef. Shebi. IV, 21 לי׳ אתרוג באחד וכ׳ he harvested Ethrogs on the first of Sh’bat; R. Hash. 14ᵃ; Erub. 7ᵃ; Yeb. 15ᵃ. Tosef. R. Hash. I, 9 לי׳ ירק if one picked vegetables; a. v. fr.—Maas. Sh. II, 5 מה שלי׳ לי׳ וכ׳ Y. ed. (Mish. a. Bab. ed. מה שלקט לקט) what coins he picked up singly belong to the second-tithe fund. Y. ib. 53ᶜ והוא שלי׳ מיכן ומיכן אבל לי׳ על אומד וכ׳ (not אומן) provided he picked up here and there (deliberately selecting), but if he did so at random &c. Bekh. 7ᵇ כל המטיל בצים מְלַקֵּט וכ׳ every animal that lays eggs supports its brood by picking up food for it, except the bat … which gives suck.—M. Kat. I, 5 מלקט אדם וכ׳ one may (during the festive week) collect for final burial the bones of &c., v. לִיקּוּט. Snh. VI, 6 מְלַקְּטִין את העצמות וכ׳ the bones (of the convict) may be collected and buried in their family tomb; a. fr.—Esp. to glean, to take the poor man’s share in the crop. Peah IV, 9 מי שלקט וכ׳ (Y. ed. שלי׳) if one gleaned the corner of the field and said, this is to belong to &c.; Gitt. 11ᵇ; B. Mets. 9ᵇ.—Peah V, 6 לִלְקוֹט (Y. ed. ללַקֵּט). Y. ib. IV, 18ᵇ ילכו וִילַקְּטוּ וכ׳ let them have an opportunity to go and glean in another field &c., v. כִּילּוּי, a. v. fr.—[Peah IV, 5, v. Hif.].—[Sot. 11ᵇ ומלקט להן וכ׳, v. נָקַט.]
- 2. to pluck (hair) out singly. Naz. 40ᵇ לִיקְּטוֹ במלקט if he plucked it singly with pinchers; Macc. III, 5 לְקָטוֹ. Ib. 20ᵇ במְלַקֵּט לבנות וכ׳ when one plucks out the white hair among the black; Sabb. 94ᵇ; a. e.—[Naz. l. c. עד שילקטנו בתער, read שיטלנו as Macc. III, 5.]
- 1. to be collected, harvested. Tosef. Shebi. IV, 21 שגדל בחובה ונ׳ בחובה what has been growing under obligation (as eventually subject to tithes) and been harvested under obligation; שגדל בשביעית ונ׳ בשביעית what has been growing in the Sabbatical year and collected in &c.; R. Hash. 15ᵃ; a. e.
- 2. to be made smooth by plucking. Sabb. 97ᵃ, v. מַלְקֵט.
- to be gleaned. Peah V, 1 גדיש שלא ל׳ תחתיו a stack of grain under which the gleaning for the poor has been left.
- 1. to cause picking, to strew feed for birds. Tosef. Sabb. XVIII, 4 מַלְקִיטִין, contrad. to מהלקטין (v. הִילְקט); Sabb. 155ᵇ
- 2. to arrange the gleaning by the poor. Peah IV, 5 (3) היו מַלְקִיטִין על החבל Y. ed. (Bab. ed. a. Mish. מלקטין) arranged the gleaning by the line, leaving a corner at the end of each furrow.
- to be collected; to require collection. Maas. Sh. II, 5 המִתְלַקְּטִים those coins which have been picked up singly, opp. הנבללין.—Ḥull. 46ᵃ מִתְלַקֵּט מהו if the required size of sound flesh can be obtained only by collecting (it not being in one place), how is it?—Ib. 77ᵃ מתל׳ מהו how is it, if the quantity of flesh required to cover the broken bone is scattered?
לְקַט
- , ch. same, to pick up; to gather. Targ. Gen. XXXI, 46. Ib. XLVII, 14 (ed. Berl. לַקֵּיט). Targ. Ex. XVI, 26; a. e.—Part. לָקֵיט, לָקֵט. Targ. O. Deut. XXIX, 10 לָקֵיט ed. Berl. (ed. Amst. לַקֵּט, corr. acc.; h. text חטב); Targ. Josh. IX, 21 לַקְטֵי Bxt. (ed. מְלַקְּטֵי).—Sabb. 156ᵃ דלא לָקֵיט בלישניה (a calf) that does not take up with its tongue (the fodder placed before it), v. infra; a. e.
- same. Targ. Gen. XLVII, 14, v. supra. Targ. Lev. XIX, 9 (Y. II Pe.); a. fr.—Targ. II Esth. III, 8 ומְלַקְּטִין (not ומְלָקְטִין), v. חַצְבָּא.—Lev. R. s. 6 שרי ההוא מְלַקֵּט א"ל לַקֵּט לַקֵּט … את מלקט he began to pick up (the scattered Denars); said he to him, pick up, pick up, for it is thine own thou art picking up.—Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵃ bot. ומְלַקְּטָן (not וולקטה) and gathers them (the sun-dried fruits in cakes or strings; v. Maim. Sabb. VIII, 6); a. e.
- to cause to take up, to put the mouth to. Sabb. 156ᵃ מַלְקִיטִין יתיה Ms. O. (Ms. M. מַלְקְטִין ליה, ed. מהלקיטין, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) we may make it take up (taste the fodder).
לֶקֶט
- preced. wds.)
- 1. gleanings; the poor man’s share in the crop (Lev. XIX, 9). Peah IV, 3. Ib. 10 איזהו ל׳ הנושר וכ׳ what is called leḳet (the poor man’s share)? That which drops &c. Ib. 11 ספק ל׳ ל׳ where there is a doubt about leḳet, it is leḳet, i.e. the poor man has the benefit of the doubt. Ib. V, 1 אומדין אותה כמה ל׳ וכ׳ we calculate how much it would ordinarily give out for the poor man. Y. ib. V, beg. 18ᵈ שגדש ע"ג לִיקְטָן של וכ׳ for he piled up the stack over the poor man’s share; a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 19:9
- 2. pucker, seam. M. Kat. 26ᵇ הקורע … מתוך הל׳ he who rends his garment … in a place which has been mended by a pucker (after having been rent for a death).
לֶקֶט ²
- 1. same, gleanings, poor man’s share. Targ. Lev. XIX, 9.
- 2. the accumulated food in a bird’s crop. Targ. Y. I Lev. I, 16.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
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