Male מָלֵא

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Male
מָלֵא
Transliterationmale
Strong's numberH4390
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto fill
Occurrences249 in 241 verses
Most frequent inExodus (23)

Male (Hebrew מָלֵא, Strong's H4390) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to fill”. It occurs 249 times in 241 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVfilled (71), full (48), fill (32), fulfilled (20), fulfil (8), consecrate (8), consecrated (7), set (6), wholly (6), accomplished (6), replenished (5), expired (3), and 24 other renderings
BSBfill (20), is full (17), filled (17), was filled (7), are full (7), are complete (5), will be filled (5), ordained (4), is filled (4), wholeheartedly (4), is complete (3), will be full (3), and 114 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Male, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Joel

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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