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מָלֵא

ma.leto fillHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb247 occurrences32 books239 verses

Definition

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

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מָלֵא:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

247 total
  1. Proverbs 3:10וְיִמָּלְא֣וּ · will be filled
    …then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
  2. Proverbs 6:30לְמַלֵּ֥א · to satisfy
    Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.
  3. Proverbs 8:21אֲמַלֵּֽא׃פ · and making
    …bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
  4. Proverbs 12:21מָ֣לְאוּ · are filled
    No harm befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.
  5. Proverbs 20:17יִמָּֽלֵא־ · is full of
    Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
  6. Proverbs 24:4יִמָּלְא֑וּ · are filled
    …through knowledge its rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.
  7. Ecclesiastes 1:8תִמָּלֵ֥א · content
    All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
  8. Ecclesiastes 6:7תִמָּלֵֽא׃ · satisfied
    All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.
  9. Ecclesiastes 8:11מָלֵ֞א · become fully set
    When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
  10. Ecclesiastes 11:3יִמָּלְא֨וּ · are full
    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.
  11. Song of Solomon 5:2נִמְלָא־ · is drenched
    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.”
  12. Song of Solomon 5:14מְמֻלָּאִ֖ים · set
    His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.
  13. Isaiah 1:15מָלֵֽאוּ׃ · are covered
    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.
  14. Isaiah 2:6מָלְאוּ֙ · they are filled
    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.
  15. Isaiah 2:7וַתִּמָּלֵ֤א · is full of; וַתִּמָּלֵ֤א · is full of
    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.
  16. Isaiah 2:8וַתִּמָּלֵ֥א · is full of
    Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
  17. Isaiah 6:1מְלֵאִ֥ים · filled
    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.
  18. Isaiah 6:4יִמָּלֵ֥א · was filled
    At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
  19. Isaiah 11:9מָלְאָ֣ה · will be full
    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.
  20. Isaiah 13:21וּמָלְא֥וּ · will fill
    But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
  21. Isaiah 14:21וּמָלְא֥וּ · with their
    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.
  22. Isaiah 15:9מָ֣לְאוּ · are full of
    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.
  23. Isaiah 21:3מָלְא֤וּ · is filled
    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.
  24. Isaiah 22:7מָ֣לְאוּ · are full of
    Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.
  25. Isaiah 23:2מִלְאֽוּךְ׃ · have crossed
    Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose traders have crossed the sea.
  26. Isaiah 27:6וּמָלְא֥וּ · and fill
    In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
  27. Isaiah 28:8מָלְא֖וּ · are covered
    For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
  28. Isaiah 30:27מָ֣לְאוּ · are full of
    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.
  29. Isaiah 33:5מִלֵּ֣א · He has filled
    The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
  30. Isaiah 34:6מָלְאָ֥ה · is bathed
    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.
  31. Isaiah 40:2מָֽלְאָה֙ · has been completed
    “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.”
  32. Isaiah 65:11וְהַֽמְמַלְאִ֖ים · and fill
    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,
  33. Isaiah 65:20יְמַלֵּ֖א · to live out
    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.
  34. Jeremiah 4:5מַלְאוּ֙
    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.’
  35. Jeremiah 6:11מָלֵ֙אתִי֙ · But I am full of
    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.
  36. Jeremiah 13:12יִמָּ֣לֵא · shall be filled; יִמָּ֥לֵא · should be filled
    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?’
  37. Jeremiah 13:13מְמַלֵּ֣א · I am going to fill
    …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.
  38. Jeremiah 15:17מִלֵּאתָֽנִי׃ס · You have filled me
    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.
  39. Jeremiah 16:18מָלְא֖וּ · and they have filled
    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.”
  40. Jeremiah 19:4וּמָֽלְא֛וּ · They have filled
    …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.
  41. Jeremiah 23:10מָלְאָ֣ה · is full of
    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.
  42. Jeremiah 23:24מָלֵ֖א · fill
    “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.
  43. Jeremiah 25:12כִמְלֹ֣אות · are complete
    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.
  44. Jeremiah 25:34מָלְא֥וּ · have come
    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.
  45. Jeremiah 29:10מְלֹ֧את · are complete
    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.
  46. Jeremiah 31:25מִלֵּֽאתִי׃ · and replenish
    …for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”
  47. Jeremiah 33:5וּלְמַלְאָם֙ · and to fill [those places]
    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.
  48. Jeremiah 41:9מִלֵּ֛א · filled it
    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.