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מְלֹא (H4393)

mᵉlôʼ

mel-o'

rarely מְלוֹא; or מְלוֹ; (Ezekiel [41:8), from מָלֵא; fulness (literally or figuratively); [idiom] all along, [idiom] all that is (there-) in, fill, ([idiom] that whereof...was) full, fulness, (hand-) full, multitude.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

מְלֹא, [מְלוֹא] n.m. fulness, that which fills
1 fulness of hand (= handful)
2 mass of shepherds; multitude of nations

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


36 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Judges 6:38
    And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
  • 1 Samuel 28:20
    Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
  • 2 Samuel 8:2
    And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
  • 1 Kings 17:12
    And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
  • 2 Kings 4:39
    And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
  • 1 Chronicles 16:32
    Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.
  • Psalms 24:1
    A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
  • Psalms 50:12
    If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
  • Psalms 89:11
    The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
  • Psalms 96:11
    Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.