H4390: מָלֵא
mâlêʼ · pronounced maw-lay' · “to fill”
Definition
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
KJV translates it as: accomplish, confirm, [phrase] consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, [idiom] draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-) flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a (hand-) full, [phrase] have wholly.
Word origin: or מָלָא; (Esther 7:5), a primitive root;
Extended definition
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)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4390 is translated
- fill ×21
- it is full ×17
- he filled ×15
- it filled ×11
- they are full ×11
- it was filled ×7
- are completed ×7
- they were completed ×6
- he has filled ×6
- it will be filled ×6
- they will be full ×5
- they have filled ×5
Bible verses with H4390 (mâlêʼ)
Mâlêʼ appears in 241 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
- Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Genesis 6:11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
- Genesis 21:19
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
- Genesis 24:16
And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
- Genesis 25:24
And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
- Genesis 26:15
For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
- Genesis 29:21
And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
- Genesis 29:27
Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
- Genesis 29:28
And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
- Genesis 42:25
Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
- Genesis 44:1
And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
- Genesis 50:3
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
- Exodus 1:7
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
- Exodus 2:16
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
- Exodus 7:25
And seven days were fulfilled, after that the Lord had smitten the river.
- Exodus 8:21
Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
- Exodus 10:6
And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
- Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
- Exodus 23:26
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- Exodus 28:3
And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
- Exodus 28:17
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
- Exodus 28:41
And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
All 241 references
- Exodus 29:9
- Exodus 29:29
- Exodus 29:33
- Exodus 29:35
- Exodus 31:3
- Exodus 31:5
- Exodus 32:29
- Exodus 35:31
- Exodus 35:33
- Exodus 35:35
- Exodus 39:10
- Exodus 40:34
- Exodus 40:35
- Leviticus 8:33
- Leviticus 9:17
- Leviticus 12:4
- Leviticus 12:6
- Leviticus 16:32
- Leviticus 19:29
- Leviticus 21:10
- Leviticus 25:30
- Numbers 3:3
- Numbers 6:5
- Numbers 6:13
- Numbers 14:21
- Numbers 14:24
- Numbers 32:11
- Numbers 32:12
- Deuteronomy 1:36
- Deuteronomy 6:11
- Joshua 3:15
- Joshua 9:13
- Joshua 14:8
- Joshua 14:9
- Joshua 14:14
- Judges 16:27
- Judges 17:5
- Judges 17:12
- 1 Samuel 16:1
- 1 Samuel 18:26
- 1 Samuel 18:27
- 2 Samuel 7:12
- 2 Samuel 23:7
- 1 Kings 1:14
- 1 Kings 2:27
- 1 Kings 7:14
- 1 Kings 8:10
- 1 Kings 8:11
- 1 Kings 8:15
- 1 Kings 8:24
- 1 Kings 11:6
- 1 Kings 13:33
- 1 Kings 18:33
- 1 Kings 18:35
- 1 Kings 20:27
- 2 Kings 3:17
- 2 Kings 3:20
- 2 Kings 3:25
- 2 Kings 4:6
- 2 Kings 6:17
- 2 Kings 9:24
- 2 Kings 10:21
- 2 Kings 21:16
- 2 Kings 23:14
- 2 Kings 24:4
- 1 Chronicles 12:15
- 1 Chronicles 17:11
- 1 Chronicles 29:5
- 2 Chronicles 5:13
- 2 Chronicles 5:14
- 2 Chronicles 6:4
- 2 Chronicles 6:15
- 2 Chronicles 7:1
- 2 Chronicles 7:2
- 2 Chronicles 13:9
- 2 Chronicles 16:14
- 2 Chronicles 29:31
- 2 Chronicles 36:21
- Ezra 9:11
- Esther 1:5
- Esther 2:12
- Esther 3:5
- Esther 5:9
- Esther 7:5
- Job 3:15
- Job 8:21
- Job 15:2
- Job 15:32
- Job 16:10
- Job 20:11
- Job 20:22
- Job 20:23
- Job 21:24
- Job 22:18
- Job 23:4
- Job 32:18
- Job 36:16
- Job 36:17
- Job 38:39
- Job 39:2
- Job 41:7
- Psalms 10:7
- Psalms 17:14
- Psalms 20:4
- Psalms 20:5
- Psalms 26:10
- Psalms 33:5
- Psalms 38:7
- Psalms 48:10
- Psalms 65:9
- Psalms 71:8
- Psalms 72:19
- Psalms 74:20
- Psalms 80:9
- Psalms 81:10
- Psalms 83:16
- Psalms 104:24
- Psalms 107:9
- Psalms 110:6
- Psalms 119:64
- Psalms 126:2
- Psalms 127:5
- Psalms 129:7
- Proverbs 1:13
- Proverbs 3:10
- Proverbs 6:30
- Proverbs 8:21
- Proverbs 12:21
- Proverbs 20:17
- Proverbs 24:4
- Ecclesiastes 1:8
- Ecclesiastes 6:7
- Ecclesiastes 8:11
- Ecclesiastes 11:3
- Song of Solomon 5:2
- Song of Solomon 5:14
- Isaiah 1:15
- Isaiah 2:6
- Isaiah 2:7
- Isaiah 2:8
- Isaiah 6:1
- Isaiah 6:4
- Isaiah 11:9
- Isaiah 13:21
- Isaiah 14:21
- Isaiah 15:9
- Isaiah 21:3
- Isaiah 22:7
- Isaiah 23:2
- Isaiah 27:6
- Isaiah 28:8
- Isaiah 30:27
- Isaiah 33:5
- Isaiah 34:6
- Isaiah 40:2
- Isaiah 65:11
- Isaiah 65:20
- Jeremiah 4:5
- Jeremiah 6:11
- Jeremiah 13:12
- Jeremiah 13:13
- Jeremiah 15:17
- Jeremiah 16:18
- Jeremiah 19:4
- Jeremiah 23:10
- Jeremiah 23:24
- Jeremiah 25:12
- Jeremiah 25:34
- Jeremiah 29:10
- Jeremiah 31:25
- Jeremiah 33:5
- Jeremiah 41:9
- Jeremiah 44:25
- Jeremiah 46:12
- Jeremiah 51:5
- Jeremiah 51:11
- Jeremiah 51:14
- Jeremiah 51:34
- Lamentations 4:18
- Ezekiel 3:3
- Ezekiel 5:2
- Ezekiel 7:19
- Ezekiel 7:23
- Ezekiel 8:17
- Ezekiel 9:7
- Ezekiel 9:9
- Ezekiel 10:2
- Ezekiel 10:3
- Ezekiel 10:4
- Ezekiel 11:6
- Ezekiel 23:33
- Ezekiel 24:4
- Ezekiel 26:2
- Ezekiel 27:25
- Ezekiel 28:16
- Ezekiel 30:11
- Ezekiel 32:5
- Ezekiel 32:6
- Ezekiel 35:8
- Ezekiel 43:5
- Ezekiel 43:26
- Ezekiel 44:4
- Daniel 9:2
- Daniel 10:3
- Joel 2:24
- Joel 3:13
- Micah 3:8
- Micah 6:12
- Nahum 2:12
- Habakkuk 2:14
- Habakkuk 3:3
- Zephaniah 1:9
- Haggai 2:7
- Zechariah 8:5
- Zechariah 9:13
- Zechariah 9:15