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Lexicon :: Strong's H4390 - mālā'

Aa
מָלָא
Transliteration
mālā'
Pronunciation
maw-lay'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1195

Strong’s Definitions

מָלֵא mâlêʼ, maw-lay'; or מָלָא mâlâʼ; (Esther 7:5), a primitive root; to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively):—accomplish, confirm, consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, × 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, have wholly.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 249x

The KJV translates Strong's H4390 in the following manner: fill (107x), full (48x), fulfil (28x), consecrate (15x), accomplish (7x), replenish (7x), wholly (6x), set (6x), expired (3x), fully (2x), gather (2x), overflow (2x), satisfy (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 249x
The KJV translates Strong's H4390 in the following manner: fill (107x), full (48x), fulfil (28x), consecrate (15x), accomplish (7x), replenish (7x), wholly (6x), set (6x), expired (3x), fully (2x), gather (2x), overflow (2x), satisfy (2x), miscellaneous (14x).
  1. to fill, be full

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be full

        1. fulness, abundance (participle)

        2. to be full, be accomplished, be ended

      2. to consecrate, fill the hand

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be filled, be armed, be satisfied

      2. to be accomplished, be ended

    3. (Piel)

      1. to fill

      2. to satisfy

      3. to fulfil, accomplish, complete

      4. to confirm

    4. (Pual) to be filled

    5. (Hithpael) to mass themselves against

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָלֵא mâlêʼ, maw-lay'; or מָלָא mâlâʼ; (Esther 7:5), a primitive root; to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively):—accomplish, confirm, consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, × 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, have wholly.
STRONGS H4390: Abbreviations
מָלֵא 249 verb be full, fill (Late Hebrew id. (Pi. transitive); Zinjirli מלא (Pi. transitive) DHMSendsch. 60; Assyrian malû (transitive and intransitive) DlHWB 409; Arabic bdb057001 (transitive) bdb057002, bdb057003 (intransitive); Ethiopic bdb057004 (transitive and intransitive); Aramaic bdb057005 (transitive), מְלָא (intransitive and transitive), Palmyrene proper name מלא = plenitude, VogPalm 7, 2 and others; Sabean מלא Os14 Levy-OsZMG xix.1863, 211 f. DHMZMG xxix.1875, 595); —
Qal 99 Perfect מ׳ Exodus 40:34 +; suffix מְלַאוֺ Esther 7:5; מָלֵאתָ Job 36:17; מָלֵאתִי Micah 3:8; Jeremiah 6:11; מָלֵ֫תִי Job 32:18; מָֽלְאוּ Genesis 29:21 +; מָלוּ Ezekiel 28:16 (מָלֵאתָ) Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Co); מָלֵ֑אוּ Isaiah 1:15, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular suffix חִמְלָאֵ֣מוֺ Exodus 15:9; יִמְלְאוּ Genesis 50:3 + 2 times; וַיִּמְלְאוּ Genesis 25:24; Genesis 50:3; Imperative מִלְאוּ Genesis 1:22 + 5 times; Infinitive construct מְלֹאת (מְלֹאות) Leviticus 8:33 + 12 times; Participle מָלֵא Jeremiah 23:24; מְלֵאִים Isaiah 6:1; (compare also below מָלֵא adjective); —
1. be full, usually with accusative material:
a. literally subject houses Exodus 8:17; Exodus 10:6 (both J) Judges 16:27; Isaiah 13:21; 2 Chronicles 5:13, compare Ezekiel 10:4 (strike out Co); winepress Joel 4:13; threshing-floor Joel 2:24; vessel 2 Kings 4:6; Job 21:24, etc.; Job 20:22 מְלֹאות (compare מְלֹא), i.e. fulness, abundance.
b. figurative, earth full of violence Genesis 6:13, compare Leviticus 19:29 (both P), Micah 6:12; Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 23:10; Jeremiah 51:5; Psalm 26:10; Ezekiel 7:23 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 9:3, etc.; earth full of glory, mercy, goodness, knowledge, of מ׳ Psalm 33:5; Psalm 119:64; Isaiah 11:9; Habakkuk 3:3; compare also Psalm 48:11; Psalm 104:24, etc.; subject נֶפֶשׁ = desire be satisfied (full) with suffix Exodus 15:9; וְדִין רָשָׁע מ׳ Job 36:17 and of judgment on the wicked art thou full (hast thou thy fill), compare Di Du; מָלֵא לֵב לַעֲשׂוֺת רָ֑ע Ecclesiastes 8:11; especially of days, years, be full, accomplished, ended, Genesis 25:24; Genesis 29:21; Genesis 50:3 (twice in verse) (JE); Leviticus 8:33; Leviticus 12:4, 6; Leviticus 25:30; Numbers 6:5, 13 (P); 1 Samuel 18:26; 2 Samuel 7:12; Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 29:10; Lamentations 4:18; Ezekiel 5:2; 1 Chronicles 17:11; Esther 1:5; Esther 2:12; Daniel 10:3; compare also with other subject (literally) Jeremiah 25:34; Isaiah 40:2.
2. transitive fill, of populating sea and earth Genesis 1:22, 28; Genesis 9:1 (all P); consecrate מִלְאוּ יֶדְכֶם ליהוה; (literally fill the hand) Exodus 32:29 (compare below); especially of glory of י׳ filling tabernacle and temple; Exodus 40:34, 35 (P) 1 Kings 8:10, 11, compare Isaiah 6:1; see also Jeremiah 23:24, especially literal Ezekiel 10:3; Ezekiel 43:5; Ezekiel 44:4; 2 Chronicles 5:14; 7:1, 2; followed by 2 accusativefill jars (with) water 1 Kings 18:34; absolute overflow עַלכָּֿלגְּֿדוֺתָיו מ׳ Joshua 3:15 (compare 1 Chronicles 12:16 Pi.); figurative fill land with sin Jeremiah 16:18, compare Jeremiah 19:4; Ezekiel 8:17; Ezekiel 28:16, compare Ezekiel 30:11; מְלָאוֺ לִבּוֺ לַעֲשׂוֺתכֵּֿן Esther 7:5 (compare Ecclesiastes 8:11 above); מִלְאוּ הַשְּׁלָטִים Jeremiah 51:11 meaning obscure, see [שֶׁלֶט]; Gie proposes מִרְטוּ הַשּׁ׳ polish.
†Niph. Perfect נִמְלָאֿ Songs 5:2; Imperfect יִמָּלֵא 2 Samuel 23:7 + 9 times; וַיִּמָּלֵא Exodus 7:25 + 5 times; יִמָּֽלְא֫וּ Proverbs 3:10 + 2 times; יִמָּֽלֵ֑אוּ Proverbs 24:4; יִמָּֽלְאוּן Ezekiel 32:6; —
1. be filled, usually with accusative of material (with מִן of source Ecclesiastes 1:8, compare Ezekiel 32:6; with לְ Habakkuk 2:14); land, with people Exodus 1:7; compare 2 Kings 3:17, 20; Isaiah 2:7 (twice in verse); Isaiah 2:8; house with smoke Isaiah 6:4, compare Ezekiel 10:4; see also Proverbs 3:10; Proverbs 24:4; Jeremiah 13:12 (twice in verse); Zechariah 8:5; Songs 5:2; Ecclesiastes 11:3; 2 Kings 10:21; Ezekiel 32:6; = be armed 2 Samuel 23:7 (literally be filled or fill himself, i.e. his hand, with weapon, compare Pi. 2); be satisfied, subject נֶפֶשׁ = appetite Ecclesiastes 6:7; subject אֹזֶן Ecclesiastes 1:8; figurative earth filled with violence (compare Qal) Genesis 6:11, compare Ezekiel 9:9; Ezekiel 23:33; with glory and knowledge of י׳ Numbers 14:21; Habakkuk 2:14; Psalm 72:19; see also 1 Kings 7:14; Psalm 71:8; Psalm 126:2; Esther 3:5; Esther 5:9; Proverbs 20:17; absolute Ezekiel 26:2 (but Co below מָלֵא adjective, so Greek Version of the LXX Targum) Ezekiel 27:25.
2. be accomplished, ended, subject days Exodus 7:25; of an exchange, requital, Job 15:32.
Pi.112 Perfect מִלֵּא Exodus 35:35 +; מִלָּא Jeremiah 51:34; מִלֵּאתָ Deuteronomy 6:11 +; מִלְאוּ Numbers 32:11 +, etc.; Imperfect יְמַלֵּא Leviticus 8:33 +; יְמַלֵּה֗֗֗ Job 8:21; וַיְמַלְאוּ Genesis 42:25; Exodus 39:10; יְמַלֵּ֑אוּ Ezekiel 7:19, etc.; Imperative מַלֵּא Genesis 29:27 + 5 times; מַלְאוּ Jeremiah 4:5; Ezekiel 9:7; Infinitive construct מַלֵּא Exodus 29:29 + 5 times; מַלְּאוֺת (אֹת -) Exodus 31:5 + 5 times; suffix מַלְּאָם Jeremiah 33:5; Participle מְמַלֵּא Jeremiah 13:13; 1 Chronicles 12:15; plural מְמַלְאִים Isaiah 65:11 + 2 times; —
2. special uses are: satisfy appetite Job 38:39; Psalm 17:14; Proverbs 6:30; Job 20:23; Jeremiah 51:14 (figurative); take a handful of מִן כַּפּוֹ מ׳ Leviticus 9:17; grasp יָדוֺ בְּ מ׳ 2 Kings 9:24, compare (of laying arrow on bow) figurative הַקֶּשֶׁת בְּאֶפְרַיִם מ׳ Zechariah 9:13; overflow מְמַלֵּא עַלכָּֿלגְּֿד֯יֹתָיו 1 Chronicles 12:16 (compare Joshua 3:15 Qal); give in full וַיְמַלְאוּם לַמֶּלֶךְ 1 Samuel 18:27 (read וַיְמַלְּאֵם A LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Vulgate We Dr Kit Bu); פּ׳ יַר מִלֵּא figurative for institute to a priestly office, consecrate Exodus 28:41; Exodus 29:9, 29, 33, 35; Leviticus 8:33; Leviticus 16:32; Leviticus 21:10; Numbers 3:3; Judges 17:5, 12; 1 Kings 13:33; Ezekiel 43:26 (altar), 1 Chronicles 29:5; 2 Chronicles 13:9; 29:31 (compare Assyrian umallu ḳatu, confer upon, DlHWB 409); אַחֲרֵי מ׳ wholly follow י׳ Numbers 14:24; Numbers 32:11, 12; Deuteronomy 1:36; Joshua 14:8, 9, 14; 1 Kings 11:6; fill in, i.e. set precious stones Exodus 28:17 (בּוֺ מִלֻּאַת אֶבֶן מ׳) compare Exodus 31:5; Exodus 35:33; Exodus 39:10 (all P); etc.
3. fulfil, accomplish, complete, object week, year, day, Genesis 29:27, 28; Exodus 23:26; Isaiah 65:20; Job 39:2; 2 Chronicles 36:21; Daniel 9:2; object word, promise, etc.; subject י׳ 1 Kings 8:15, 24; 2 Chronicles 6:4, 15; Psalm 20:5; Psalm 20:6; subject men 1 Kings 2:27; Jeremiah 44:25; 2 Chronicles 36:21.
4. confirm words 1 Kings 1:14.
†Pu. Participle filled, i.e. set with jewels מְמֻלָּאִים בַּתַּרְשִׁישׁ Songs 5:14.
†Hithp. Imperfect עָלַי יִתְמַלָּא֑וּן Job 16:10, mass themselves against me; perhaps denominative from מְלֹא 2.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H4391.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:22; 1:22; 1:28; 6:11; 6:13; 9:1; 21:19; 24:16; 25:24; 25:24; 26:15; 29:21; 29:21; 29:27; 29:27; 29:28; 42:25; 42:25; 44:1; 50:3; 50:3; 50:3

Exodus

1:7; 2:16; 7:25; 7:25; 8:17; 10:6; 15:9; 15:9; 23:26; 28:3; 28:17; 28:41; 29:9; 29:29; 29:29; 29:33; 29:35; 31:3; 31:5; 31:5; 32:29; 35:31; 35:33; 35:35; 35:35; 39:10; 39:10; 40:34; 40:34; 40:35

Leviticus

8:33; 8:33; 8:33; 8:33; 9:17; 12:4; 12:6; 16:32; 19:29; 21:10; 25:30

Numbers

3:3; 6:5; 6:13; 14:21; 14:24; 32:11; 32:11; 32:12

Deuteronomy

1:36; 6:11; 6:11

Joshua

3:15; 3:15; 9:13; 14:8; 14:9; 14:14

Judges

16:27; 17:5; 17:12

1 Samuel

18:26; 18:27

2 Samuel

7:12; 23:7; 23:7

1 Kings

1:14; 2:27; 7:14; 8:10; 8:11; 8:15; 8:24; 11:6; 13:33; 18:34; 18:35; 20:27

2 Kings

3:17; 3:20; 3:25; 4:6; 9:24; 9:24; 10:21; 21:16; 23:14

1 Chronicles

12:15; 12:16; 12:16; 17:11; 29:5

2 Chronicles

5:13; 5:14; 6:4; 6:15; 7:1; 7:2; 13:9; 16:14; 29:31; 36:21; 36:21

Ezra

9:11; 9:11

Esther

1:5; 2:12; 3:5; 5:9; 7:5; 7:5

Job

3:15; 8:21; 15:32; 16:10; 20:22; 20:23; 21:24; 22:18; 32:18; 36:17; 36:17; 38:39; 39:2

Psalms

17:14; 20:5; 20:6; 26:10; 33:5; 48:11; 71:8; 72:19; 104:24; 107:9; 119:64; 126:2; 127:5; 129:7

Proverbs

3:10; 3:10; 6:30; 20:17; 24:4; 24:4

Ecclesiastes

1:8; 1:8; 6:7; 8:11; 8:11; 9:3; 11:3

Song of Songs

5:2; 5:2; 5:14

Isaiah

1:15; 1:15; 2:7; 2:8; 6:1; 6:1; 6:4; 11:9; 13:21; 23:2; 33:5; 40:2; 65:11; 65:11; 65:20

Jeremiah

4:5; 6:11; 13:12; 13:13; 15:17; 16:18; 19:4; 23:10; 23:24; 23:24; 25:12; 25:34; 29:10; 33:5; 41:9; 44:25; 51:5; 51:11; 51:14; 51:34; 51:34

Lamentations

4:18

Ezekiel

3:3; 5:2; 7:19; 7:19; 7:23; 8:17; 9:7; 9:7; 9:9; 10:2; 10:3; 10:4; 10:4; 23:33; 24:4; 26:2; 27:25; 28:16; 28:16; 30:11; 32:6; 32:6; 32:6; 43:5; 43:26; 44:4

Daniel

9:2; 10:3

Joel

2:24

Micah

3:8; 6:12

Nahum

2:13

Habakkuk

2:14; 2:14; 3:3

Haggai

2:7

Zechariah

8:5; 9:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4390 matches the Hebrew מָלָא (mālā'),
which occurs 250 times in 242 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 5 (Jer 51:5–Zec 9:15)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:5 - For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD Almighty, though their land[fn] is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:11 - “Sharpen the arrows, take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is to destroy Babylon. The LORD will take vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:14 - The LORD Almighty has sworn by himself: I will surely fill you with troops, as with a swarm of locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 - “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured us, he has thrown us into confusion, he has made us an empty jar. Like a serpent he has swallowed us and filled his stomach with our delicacies, and then has spewed us out.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:18 - People stalked us at every step, so we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near, our days were numbered, for our end had come.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:3 - Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:2 - When the days of your siege come to an end, burn a third of the hair inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind. For I will pursue them with drawn sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:19 - “ ‘They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath. It will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, for it has caused them to stumble into sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:23 - “ ‘Prepare chains! For the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually arouse my anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - Then he said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - The LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the wheels beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:3 - Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:4 - Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and moved to the threshold of the temple. The cloud filled the temple, and the court was full of the radiance of the glory of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:6 - You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of ruin and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:4 - Put into it the pieces of meat, all the choice pieces—the leg and the shoulder. Fill it with the best of these bones;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - “Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:25 - “ ‘The ships of Tarshish serve as carriers for your wares. You are filled with heavy cargo as you sail the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:16 - Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11 - He and his army—the most ruthless of nations— will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:5 - I will spread your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:6 - I will drench the land with your flowing blood all the way to the mountains, and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:8 - I will fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:5 - Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:26 - For seven days they are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; thus they will dedicate it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:4 - Then the man brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. I looked and saw the glory of the LORD filling the temple of the LORD, and I fell facedown.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:2 - in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:3 - I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:24 - The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:13 - Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow— so great is their wickedness!”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:8 - But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:12 - Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:12 - The lion killed enough for his cubs and strangled the prey for his mate, filling his lairs with the kill and his dens with the prey.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:14 - For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:3 - God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran.[fn] His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:9 - On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold,[fn] who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:7 - I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:5 - The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:13 - I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and make you like a warrior’s sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:15 - and the LORD Almighty will shield them. They will destroy and overcome with slingstones. They will drink and roar as with wine; they will be full like a bowl used for sprinkling[fn] the corners of the altar.

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