Definition

to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)

Etymology

or מָלָא; (Esther 7:5), a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• 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

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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