ma.le H4390

מָלֵא (ma.le) means “to fill” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מָלֵא Hebrew · H4390 249 tagged occurrences in 241 verses

Pronunciation guide: maw-lay' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4390

מָלֵא · ma.le · to fill

1) to fill, be full 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)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or מָלָא; (Esther 7:5), a primitive root; to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)

KJV glosses: 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.

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How translators render H4390

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
filled	12
is full of	12
and fill	10
was filled	7
fill	6
and filled	5
are complete	5
are full of	5
is full	5
will be filled	5
with	5
is filled	4
wholeheartedly	4
and ordained	3
is complete	3
are covered	2
are filled	2
are fulfilled	2
are full	2
for settings	2
full	2
has fulfilled	2
he filled	2
he has filled	2
or fill	2
to consecrate	2
to ordain	2
took	2
were completed	2
were filled	2
who filled	2
will be full	2
you have fulfilled	2
and confirm	1
and covered	1
and fills	1
and fit it	1
and fulfilled	1
and has been ordained	1
and he has filled	1
and i have filled	1
and i will fill	1
and i will fill it	1
and make	1
and making	1
and mount	1
and presented them as payment in full	1
and replenish	1
and they have filled	1
and they mounted	1
and they will be filled	1
and thus fulfilled	1
and to fill those places	1
and you were filled	1
at the end	1
be filled	1
become fully set	1
but i am full of	1
but now you are laden	1
came	1
can you fill	1
completely	1
content	1
cover	1
covered	1
drew	1
fill them	1
filled it	1
filling	1
fills	1
finish	1
for he had filled	1
for their ordination	1
grant	1
had filled	1
has been completed	1
has filled	1
have come	1
have crossed	1
have ended	1
he finished	1
he ordained	1
he wholly	1
heaping up	1
huram had great	1
i am filled	1
i am full of	1
i am going to fill	1
i have filled	1
i will be filled	1
i will fill	1
i will fill you up	1
i will fulfill	1
i will gorge myself on them	1
in fulfillment	1
in the midst	1
in this way you are to ordain	1
is bathed	1
is drenched	1
is well nourished	1
it filled	1
it will be paid in full	1
may you fill	1
must be armed	1
or satisfy	1
ordain	1
ordained	1
overflows	1
passed	1
ran out	1
remained loyal	1
required to complete	1
satisfied	1
set	1
shall be filled	1
should be filled	1
so they shall consecrate	1
that fills	1
that you have consecrated	1
they are filled	1
they are pregnant	1
they have filled	1
they have filled it	1
they join	1
they must also fill	1
they will fill	1
to fill	1
to live out	1
to satisfy	1
until it was covered	1
vvv	1
was filled with them	1
was full of	1
we will fill	1
were full	1
were full of	1
were ordained	1
when it was overflowing	1
when we filled	1
who fill	1
will be full of	1
will fill	1
with their	1
would	1
would last	1
you have been ordained	1
you have filled me	1
you have wholly	1
you will be filled	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
is full	13
filled	12
and fill	8
shall be full	8
shall be filled	7
was filled	7
and filled	6
are full	6
full	6
are fulfilled	5
fill	5
was full	5
and i will fill	4
be filled	4
were fulfilled	4
be fulfilled	3
had filled	3
to consecrate	3
also is full	2
and hast fulfilled	2
and replenish	2
are accomplished	2
fulfil	2
fulfilled	2
he hath filled	2
is filled	2
they have filled	2
to fill	2
to fulfil	2
to set	2
accomplished	1
and consecrated	1
and filleth	1
and fulfil	1
and fulfilled	1
and have filled	1
and he filled	1
and he hath filled	1
and he was filled	1
and i have filled	1
and i have replenished	1
and it filled	1
and that furnish	1
and that is consecrated	1
and they gave them in full tale	1
and they set	1
and they shall be filled	1
and they shall fill	1
and thou shalt consecrate	1
and thou shalt set	1
and thou wast replenished	1
and took	1
and went not fully	1
and whom he shall consecrate	1
and ye have filled	1
are filled	1
be accomplished	1
be at an end	1
be expired	1
be full	1
because he hath wholly	1
because that he wholly	1
because they be replenished	1
because they have not wholly	1
because thou hast wholly	1
become full	1
behold i will fill	1
but i wholly	1
but thou hast fulfilled	1
canst thou fill	1
consecrate yourselves	1
consecrated	1
filleth	1
for he filled	1
for him for so are fulfilled	1
for i am full	1
for me filled	1
for they have wholly	1
for thou hast filled	1
gather	1
gather together	1
hath filled	1
have replenished	1
he consecrated	1
he is about to fill	1
he shall fill	1
here for they have filled	1
him and fill	1
i am full	1
i will fulfil	1
in the fulness	1
is accomplished	1
is also full	1
is filled with	1
is fully set	1
is not filled	1
it and they shall consecrate themselves	1
it shall be accomplished	1
me fully	1
neither fill	1
nor fill	1
now ye have consecrated	1
or fill	1
overfloweth	1
set	1
shall be satisfied	1
shall he consecrate	1
shalt thou consecrate	1
so and fulfilled	1
surely i will fill	1
that hath not filled	1
that he might fulfil	1
that he would accomplish	1
thee and confirm	1
them and consecrate	1
them and filled	1
them hath he filled	1
them must be fenced	1
therein and to be consecrated	1
thereof are full	1
they fulfil	1
they have gathered	1
thou fillest	1
thou shalt be filled	1
till he fill	1
till he had filled	1
to satisfy	1
unto me i shall be replenished	1
we shall fill	1
were expired	1
were full	1
were not expired	1
when it had overflown	1
which fill	1
which have filled	1
which thou filledst	1
which was filled	1
which we filled	1
who filled	1
who is he and where is he that durst presume	1
whom he consecrated	1
whom i have filled	1
with his full	1
within the space	1
yet he filled	1

Verses containing H4390

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Proverbs 6:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.
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Proverbs 8:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
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Proverbs 12:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No harm befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.
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Proverbs 20:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
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Proverbs 24:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
through knowledge its rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.
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Ecclesiastes 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
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Ecclesiastes 6:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.
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Ecclesiastes 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
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Ecclesiastes 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
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Song of Solomon 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
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Song of Solomon 5:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.
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Isaiah 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
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Isaiah 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
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Isaiah 2:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.
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Isaiah 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
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Isaiah 6:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
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Isaiah 6:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
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Isaiah 11:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
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Isaiah 13:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
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Isaiah 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
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Isaiah 15:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
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Isaiah 21:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
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Isaiah 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.
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Isaiah 23:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.
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Isaiah 27:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
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Isaiah 28:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
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Isaiah 30:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
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Isaiah 33:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
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Isaiah 34:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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Isaiah 40:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
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Isaiah 65:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
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Isaiah 65:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
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Jeremiah 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’
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Jeremiah 6:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
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Jeremiah 13:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every wineskin shall be filled with wine.’ And when they reply, ‘Don’t we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’
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Jeremiah 13:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 15:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
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Jeremiah 16:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
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Jeremiah 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
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Jeremiah 23:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.
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Jeremiah 23:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 25:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
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Jeremiah 25:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
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Jeremiah 29:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
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Jeremiah 31:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”
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Jeremiah 33:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.
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Jeremiah 41:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.
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Jeremiah 44:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!
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Jeremiah 46:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”
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Jeremiah 51:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”
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