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To fill

מָלֵאStrong’s H4390

male (ma-le)

Appears in 241 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Male is the Hebrew word usually translated “it is full”, “are full” and “filled”. It appears in 241 verses of the Old Testament.

“In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
Daniel 9:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. To fill, be full(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) · (Pual) to be filled · (Hithpael) to mass themselves against
How it's translated
  • it is full 16
  • they are full 11
  • he filled 10
  • it filled 9
  • fill 8
  • to fill 7
  • it will be filled 6
  • and fill 5

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

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 23
  • Ezekiel 23
  • Psalms 22
  • Isaiah 21
  • Jeremiah 21
  • Job 17

32 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 241 verses, by book
Deuteronomy 2
1:366:11
1 Samuel 3
16:118:2618:27
2 Samuel 2
7:1223:7
1 Chronicles 3
12:1517:1129:5
Ezra 1
9:11
Ecclesiastes 4
1:86:78:1111:3
Song of Solomon 2
5:25:14
Lamentations 1
4:18
Daniel 2
9:210:3
Joel 2
2:243:13
Micah 2
3:86:12
Nahum 1
2:12
Habakkuk 2
2:143:3
Zephaniah 1
1:9
Haggai 1
2:7
Zechariah 3
8:59:139:15
Hebrew dictionary

מָלֵא male · to fill

1) to fill, be full 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be full 1a1a) fulness, abundance (participle) 1a1b) to be full, be accomplished, be ended 1a2) to consecrate, fill the hand 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be filled, be armed, be satisfied 1b2) to be accomplished, be ended 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to fill 1c2) to satisfy 1c3) to fulfil, accomplish, complete 1c4) to confirm 1d) (Pual) to be filled 1e) (Hithpael) to mass themselves against Aramaic equivalent: me.la (מְלָא "to fill" H4391)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

FILL, verb transitive

[Gr. allied perhaps to fold and felt; to stuff; Latin pilus, pileus. We are told that the Gr. to approach, signified originally to thrust or drive, Latin pello, and contracted, it is rendered to fill and is full.]

  1. Properly, to press; to crowd; to stuff.“FILL the water pots with water:and they filled them to the brim” John 2:7
  2. To store; to supply with abundance.“Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas” Genesis 1:22
  3. To cause to abound; to make universally prevalent.“The earth was filled with violence” Genesis 6:11
  4. To satisfy; to content.“Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?” Matthew 15:33
All definitions and other forms of “fill”
  1. To glut; to surfeit.
  2. To make plump; as, in a good season the grain is well filled.
  3. To press and dilate on all sides or to the extremities; as, the sails were filled.
  4. To supply with liquor; to pour into; as, to fill a glass for a guest.
  5. To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or vacancy.
  6. To hold; to possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the house fills the chair.
  7. In seamanship, to brace the sails so that the wind will bear upon them and dilate them.
  8. To fill up, to make full.
  9. To occupy; to fill Seek to fill up life with useful employments.
  10. To fill; to occupy the whole extent; as, to fill up a given space.
  11. To engage or employ; as, to fill up time.
  12. To complete; as, to fill up the measure of sin. Matthew 23:32
  13. To complete; to accomplish.“And fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ” Colossians 1:24

FILL, verb intransitive

  1. To fill a cup or glass for drinking; to give to drink.“In the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double” Revelation 18:6
  2. To grow or become full. corn fills well in a warm season.
  3. To glut; to satiate.

FILL, noun

Fullness; as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction. Eat and drink to the fill take your fill of joy.

  1. “The land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therein in safety” Leviticus 25:19

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

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.