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title: מְלֵאָה — fulness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְלֵאָה (4395), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: fulness. BDB 1906: n.f. fulness, full produce. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְלֵאָה

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«מְלֵאָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fulness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 4395 · **BDB:** מְלֵאָה

### Glosses

produce (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fulness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4395/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. fulness, full produce [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4395/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fulness, full produce;—מ׳ Nu 18:27 Dt 22:9; מְלֵאָֽתְךָ Ex 22:28; = full produce of field Ex 22:28, מ׳ הַזֶּרַע the full produce of the seed Dt 22:9; of winepress Nu 18:27.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְלֵאָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4395/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 22:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.22.28/)

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מְלֵאָתְךָ֥ וְדִמְעֲךָ֖ לֹ֣א תְאַחֵ֑ר בְּכ֥וֹר בָּנֶ֖יךָ תִּתֶּן־לִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* produce your.full and juice your not you.must.delay the.firstborn your.sons your you.will.give to me

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me.

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[Deuteronomy 22:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.9/)

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לֹא־תִזְרַ֥ע כַּרְמְךָ֖ כִּלְאָ֑יִם פֶּן־תִּקְדַּ֗שׁ הַֽמְלֵאָ֤ה הַזֶּ֙רַע֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּזְרָ֔ע וּתְבוּאַ֖ת הַכָּֽרֶם׃ס

*Word for word:* not you.will.sow vineyard your two.kinds lest it.should.be.set.apart the.full produce the seed which you.will.sow and the.produce of the.vineyard

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed; lest the fulness of the seed which thou hast sown be forfeited together with the increase of the vineyard.

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