Aramaic

To fill

מְלָאStrong’s H4391

mela (me-la)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Mela is the Aramaic word usually translated “it filled” and “was filled”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”

Daniel 2:35 KJV

Meaning

To fill(P'al) to fill · (Ithp'al) to be filled

How it's translated

and it filled 1
he was filled 1

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

Where it's used most

Daniel 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 3:19In contextThen was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

Aramaic dictionary

מְלָא mela · to fill

1) to fill 1a) (P'al) to fill 1b) (Ithp'al) to be filled

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.]

Properly, to press; to crowd; to stuff.“FILL the water pots with water:and they filled them to the brim” John 2:7
To store; to supply with abundance.“Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas” Genesis 1:22
To cause to abound; to make universally prevalent.“The earth was filled with violence” Genesis 6:11
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”

To glut; to surfeit.
To make plump; as, in a good season the grain is well filled.
To press and dilate on all sides or to the extremities; as, the sails were filled.
To supply with liquor; to pour into; as, to fill a glass for a guest.
To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or vacancy.
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.
In seamanship, to brace the sails so that the wind will bear upon them and dilate them.
To fill up, to make full.
To occupy; to fill Seek to fill up life with useful employments.
To fill; to occupy the whole extent; as, to fill up a given space.
To engage or employ; as, to fill up time.
To complete; as, to fill up the measure of sin. Matthew 23:32
To complete; to accomplish.“And fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ” Colossians 1:24

FILL, verb intransitive

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
To grow or become full. corn fills well in a warm season.
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.

“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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.