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. Ecclesiastes 1:8 תִמָּלֵ֥א ti.ma.Le' · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

  2. Ecclesiastes 6:7 תִמָּלֵֽא׃ ti.ma.Le' · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  3. Ecclesiastes 8:11 מָלֵ֞א ma.Le' · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

  4. Ecclesiastes 11:3 יִמָּלְא֨וּ yi.mal.'U · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.

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