TO GLEAN a vineyard — to go back over the vines after the vintage for what the pickers left; the noun olelot is the gleanings themselves. In the Torah the verb stands in two verses, Leviticus 19:10 and Deuteronomy 24:21, both forbidding the owner to do it so that the poor can; outside it Jeremiah 6:9 has the remnant of Israel gleaned as a vine, and Judges 20:45 turns the verb on men, five thousand Benjaminites gleaned on the highways. The noun is the prophets' image for a remnant: Obadiah 1:5, if grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?; Isaiah 17:6, gleanings left, as when an olive tree is beaten, two or three berries at the top of the topmost bough; Micah 7:1, like the gleanings of the vintage, no cluster to eat (none yet on these pages). ⚠ The same consonants spell olal, a small child (Psalm 8:3, Lamentations 2:11), an unrelated word — read the hits. Spanish has the exact verb, rebuscar, and the RV 1909 and RV60 use it; the KJV prints 'glean', the NIV 'go over the vines again'. → first discussed at Deut 24:21