# H4390 מָלֵא

מָלֵא (mâlêʼ), Strong’s H4390: 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…

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*mâlêʼ* — 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…

Occurs 251 times.

## 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=22) — God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the…
- [Genesis 1:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=28) — God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…
- [Genesis 6:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=11) — The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- [Genesis 6:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=13) — God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will…
- [Genesis 9:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=1) — God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
- [Genesis 21:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=19) — God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the container with water, and gave the boy a drink.
- [Genesis 24:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=16) — The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her…
- [Genesis 25:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=24) — When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
- [Genesis 26:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=15) — Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped…
- [Genesis 29:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=21) — Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”