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מָלֵא
mâlêʼ · Hebrew · Strong's H4390 · 250 occurrences
The KJV renders 27 different Hebrew and Greek words as “set”
What it means
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
or מָלָא; (Esther 7:5), a primitive root;
How the KJV renders it
accomplish, confirm, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, become, give in, go fullly, ly set, tale, overflow, fulness, furnish, gather selves, together, presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a handfull
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“set”
also renders hístēmi (G2476), títhēmi (G5087), keîmai (G2749), apostéllō (G649), dídōmi (G1325), taktós (G5002), kathízō (G2523), dýnō (G1416), kathístēmi (G2525), tássō (G5021), yâhab (H3051), yânach (H3240), yâçad (H3245), yâtsab (H3320), yâshab (H3427), yᵉthib (H3488), môwʻêd (H4150), mᵉnâʼ (H4483), nâthan (H5414), ʻâsâh (H6213), pâqad (H6485), qûwm (H6966), râkab (H7392), sûwm (H7761), shîyth (H7896), shâkan (H7931)
“become”
“accomplish”
“together”
“fill”
“confirm”
“fulness”
also renders apátē (G539), plḗrōma (G4138), chará (G5479), mᵉlôʼ (H4393), mᵉlêʼâh (H4395), sibʻâh (H7653)
“furnish”
“tale”
also renders miçpâr (H4557), mathkôneth (H4971)
“satisfy”
also renders chortázō (G5526), sâbaʻ (H7646)
“give in”
also renders tsâvâh (H6680)
“overflow”
also renders kataklýzō (G2626)
“presume”
also renders zûwd (H2102)
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Where it appears
250 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 12:15 · HVprmsa
These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.
1 Chronicles 17:11 · HVqp3cp
It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Chronicles 29:5 · HR/Vpc
of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”
1 Kings 1:14 · HC/Vpq1cs
Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”
1 Kings 2:27 · HR/Vpc
So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
1 Kings 7:14 · HC/VNw3ms
He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill to work all works in bronze. He came to King Solomon and performed all his work.
1 Kings 8:10 HVqp3ms1 Kings 8:11 HVqp3ms1 Kings 8:15 HVpp3ms1 Kings 8:24 HVpp2ms1 Kings 11:6 HVpp3ms1 Kings 13:33 HVpi3ms1 Kings 18:34 HVqv2mp1 Kings 18:35 HVpp3ms1 Kings 20:27 HVpp3cp1 Samuel 16:1 HVpv2ms1 Samuel 18:26 HVqp3cp1 Samuel 18:27 HC/Vpw3mp/Sp3mp2 Chronicles 5:13 HVqp3ms2 Chronicles 5:14 HVqp3ms2 Chronicles 6:4 HVpp3ms2 Chronicles 6:15 HVpp2ms2 Chronicles 7:1 HVqp3ms2 Chronicles 7:2 HVqp3ms2 Chronicles 13:9 HR/Vpc2 Chronicles 16:14 HVpp3ms2 Chronicles 29:31 HVpp2mp2 Chronicles 36:21 HR/Vpc2 Kings 3:17 HVNi3ms2 Kings 3:20 HC/VNw3fs2 Kings 3:25 HC/Vpq3cp/Sp3fs2 Kings 4:6 HR/Vqc2 Kings 6:17 HVqrmsa2 Kings 9:24 HVpp3ms2 Kings 10:21 HC/VNw3ms2 Kings 21:16 HVpp3ms2 Kings 23:14 HC/Vpw3ms2 Kings 24:4 HC/Vpw3ms2 Samuel 7:12 HVqi3mp2 Samuel 23:7 HVNi3msDaniel 9:2 HR/VpcDaniel 10:3 HVqcDeuteronomy 1:36 HVpp3msDeuteronomy 6:11 HVpp2msEcclesiastes 1:8 HVNi3fsEcclesiastes 6:7 HVNi3fsEcclesiastes 8:11 HVqp3msEcclesiastes 9:3 HVqp3msEcclesiastes 11:3 HVNi3mpEsther 1:5 HC/R/VqcEsther 2:12 HVqi3mpEsther 3:5 HC/VNw3msEsther 5:9 HC/VNw3msEsther 7:5 HVqp3ms/Sp3msExodus 1:7 HC/VNw3fsExodus 2:16 HC/Vpw3fpExodus 7:25 HC/VNw3msExodus 8:21 HC/Vqq3cpExodus 10:6 HC/Vqp3cpExodus 15:9 HVqi3fs/Sp3mp
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