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מְלִילָה

me.li.lah

ear

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Strong’s H4425Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

ears of corn1

In the text

Deuteronomy 23:25מְלִילֹת
When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מְלִילָה] n.f. ear of wheat, etc.;—only pl. abs. De 23:26

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.