Gleaning

Picking up grain or fruit left by the harvesters.

Commands concerning gleaning

Leviticus 19:9–10 See also Leviticus 23:22

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

People involved with gleaning

Ruth 2:2–3, Ruth 2:7–8, Ruth 2:15–23; Job 24:6

Gleaning used figuratively, to mean something insignificant

Isaiah 17:5–6 See also Judges 8:2; Isaiah 24:13; Jeremiah 6:9; Micah 7:1

as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten— two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.