מָלֵא

ma.le · to fill

Hebrew · Strong's H4390 · Verb · Sounds like: maw-lay' · 249 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

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

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מָלֵא 249 vb. be full, fill
Qal 99
1. be full, usu. c. acc. material
2. trans. fill
Niph.
1. be filled
2. be accomplished, ended
Pi.
1. fill
2. special uses are:
3. fulfil, accomplish, complete, obj. week, year, day
Pu. filled
Hithp. mass themselves against me

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Samuel 16:1 מַלֵּ֨א ma.Le' · A command to you: strong action

    And Jehovah said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go: I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.

  2. 1 Samuel 18:26 מָלְא֖וּ mal.'U · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired;

  3. 1 Samuel 18:27 וַיְמַלְא֣וּם vay.mal.'Um · An action: strong action, and then it happened, done by them

    and David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

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