Fullness
מְלֹאStrong’s H4393melo (me-lo)
Appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Melo is the Hebrew word usually translated “fullness of”, “what fills it” and “from fullness its”. It appears in 36 verses of the Old Testament.
“And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.”
Meaning
- Fulness, that which fillsfulness, handful · mass, multitude · fulness, that which fills, entire contents · full length, full line
How it's translated
- fullness of 17
- and what fills it 15
- and fullness of 2
- from fullness its 2
- more than fullness of 1
- a multitude of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Isaiah 5
- Ezekiel 5
- Exodus 3
- Leviticus 3
- Numbers 2
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 9:8And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
- Exodus 16:32And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 16:33And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
- Leviticus 2:2And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
- Leviticus 5:12Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 16:12And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
All 36 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מְלֹא melo · fullness
1) fulness, that which fills 1a) fulness, handful 1b) mass, multitude 1c) fulness, that which fills, entire contents 1d) full length, full line
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fullness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FULL'NESS, noun
[from full.]
- The state of being filled, so as to leave no part vacant.
- The state of abounding or being in great plenty; abundance.
- Completeness; the state of a thing in which nothing is wanted; perfection.
- Repletion; satiety; as from intemperance.
All definitions
- Repletion of vessels; as fullness of blood.
- Plenty; wealth; affluence.
- Struggling perturbation; swelling; as the fullness of the heart.
- Largeness; extent.
- Loudness; force of sound, such as fills the ear.
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.