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Lexicon :: Strong's H4390 - mālā'

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מָלָא
Transliteration
mālā'
Pronunciation
maw-lay'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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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 22 times in 21 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 -

Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,

“Blow the trumpet in the land;

Cry aloud H4390 and say,

‘Assemble, and let’s go

Into the fortified cities.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 -

But I am full H4390 of the wrath of the LORD;

I am weary of holding it in.

“Pour it out on the children in the street

And on the [fn]gathering of young men together;

For both husband and wife shall be taken,

The old [fn]and the very old.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12 -

“Therefore you are to speak this word to them. ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: “Every jug is to be filled H4390 with wine.”’ And when they say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled H4390 with wine?’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:13 - then say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am going to fill H4390 all the inhabitants of this land—the kings who sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—with drunkenness!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:17 -

I did not sit in a circle of revelers and celebrate.

Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone,

For You filled H4390 me with indignation.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:18 - “I will first repay them double for their wrongdoing and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled H4390 My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and their abominations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:4 - “Since they have abandoned Me and have made this place foreign, and have burned [fn]sacrifices in it to other gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and since they have filled H4390 this place with the blood of the innocent
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10 -

For the land is full H4390 of adulterers;

For the land mourns because of the curse.

The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.

Their course is evil

And their might is not right.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:24 -

“Can a person hide himself in hiding places

So that I do not see him?” declares the LORD.

“Do I not fill H4390 the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 -

‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed H4390 I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the LORD, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 -

“Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;

Wallow in the dust, you masters of the flock;

For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions [fn]have come H4390,

And you will fall like a precious vessel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:10 -

“For this is what the LORD says: ‘When seventy years have been H4390 completed H4390 for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:25 - “For I give plenty of water to the weary ones, and [fn]refresh H4390 everyone who languishes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - ‘While they are coming to fight the Chaldeans and to fill H4390 [fn]their houses with the bodies of people whom I have struck down in My anger and My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their wickedness:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9 -

Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck and killed [fn]because of Gedaliah, it was the one that King Asa had constructed on account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled H4390 it with the dead.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:25 - “This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel [fn]says: ‘As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled H4390 it with your hands, saying, “We will certainly perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn [fn]sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.” By all means fulfill your vows, and be sure to perform your vows!’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:12 -

The nations have heard of your shame,

And the earth is full H4390 of your cry of distress;

For one warrior has stumbled over [fn]another,

And both of them have fallen down together.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:5 -

For neither Israel nor Judah has been [fn]forsaken

By his God, the LORD of armies,

Although their land is full H4390 of guilt

[fn]Before the Holy One of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:11 -

Sharpen the arrows, fill H4390 the quivers!

The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes,

Because His plan is against Babylon to destroy it;

For it is the vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:14 -

The LORD of armies has sworn by Himself:

“I will certainly fill H4390 you with a [fn]population like locusts,

And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 -

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me,

He has set me down like an empty vessel;

He has swallowed me like a monster,

He has filled H4390 his stomach with my delicacies;

He has washed me away.

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