mestos (full) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “full”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

full 9

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

John 2
Romans 2
James 2
Matthew 1
2 Peter 1

5 books in all.

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Matthew 23:28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
John 19:29Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
John 21:11Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
Romans 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 15:14And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
James 3:8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

All 8 verses, by book

Matthew 1: 23:28
John 2: 19:29 21:11
Romans 2: 1:29 15:14
James 2: 3:8 3:17
2 Peter 1: 2:14

Greek dictionary

μεστός mestos · full

μεστός, -ή, -όν [in LXX: Nam.1:10, Eze.37:1 (מָלֵא), Est.5:2, Pro.6:34 * ;] full: with genitive of thing(s), Jhn.19:29 21:11, Jas.3:8; metaphorically, of thoughts and feelings, Mat.23:28, Rom.1:29 15:14, 2Pe.2:14, Jas.3:17 (cf. Pr, l.with).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “full” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FULL, adjective

Replete; having within its limits all that it can contain; as a vessel full of liquor.
Abounding with; having a large quantity or abundance; as a house full of furniture; life is full of cares and perplexities.
Supplied; not vacant.
Plump; fat; as a full body.

All definitions and other forms of “full”

Saturated; sated.“I am full of the burnt offerings of rams” Isaiah 1:11
Crowded, with regard to the imagination or memory.
Large; entire; not partial; that fills; as a full meal.
Complete; entire; not defective or partial; as the full accomplishment of a prophecy.
Complete; entire; without abatement.“It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharoah dreamed -” Genesis 41:1
Containing the whole matter; expressing the whole; as a full narration or description.
Strong; not faint or attenuated; loud; clear; distinct; as a full voice or sound.
Mature; perfect; as a person of full age.
Entire; complete; denoting the completion of a sentence; as a full stop or point.
Spread to view in all dimensions; as a head drawn with a full face.
Exhibiting the whole disk or surface illuminated; as the full moon.
Abundant; plenteous; sufficient.
Adequate; equal; as a full compensation or reward for labor.
Well fed.
Well supplied or furnished; abounding.
Copious; ample.

FULL, noun

Complete measure; utmost extent. this instrument answers to the full
The highest state or degree.
The whole; the total; in the phrase, at full
The state of satiety; as fed to the full

FULL, adverb

Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution.
With the whole effect.
Exactly.
Directly; as, he looked him full in the face.“FULL well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition” Mark 7:9

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.