מָלֵא mâlêʼ — (Esther 7:5), a primitive root
Translated in the KJV as accomplish, confirm, consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, × draw, give in.
or מָלָא; (Esther 7:5), a primitive root; to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively).
mâlêʼ in each stem
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 38Imperfect (yiqtol) 20Wayyiqtol 18Infinitive construct 13Sequential perfect (weqatal) 9Imperative 8Participle (active) 5
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 66Infinitive construct 13Imperative 6Sequential perfect (weqatal) 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Participle (active) 3Wayyiqtol 2Jussive 1
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 20Wayyiqtol 14Participle (passive) 1Cohortative 1
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
And seven days were fulfilled, after that the Lord had smitten the river.
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›