{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4390",
  "lemma": "מָלֵא",
  "transliteration": "mâlêʼ",
  "definition": "to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)",
  "kjv": "accomplish, confirm, [phrase] consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill…",
  "occurrences": 251,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:22",
      "text": "God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:28",
      "text": "God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 6:11",
      "text": "The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 6:13",
      "text": "God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 9:1",
      "text": "God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 21:19",
      "text": "God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:16",
      "text": "The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 25:24",
      "text": "When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 26:15",
      "text": "Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:21",
      "text": "Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=21"
    }
  ],
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