Definition

full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully

Etymology

from H4390 (מָלֵא);

Where the KJV renders it

• she that was with child
• fill(-ed
• -ed with)
• full(-ly)
• multitude
• as is worth

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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