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מָלֵא mâlêʼ — full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally)

pronounced maw-lay' · Strong's H4392 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as × she that was with child, fill(-ed, -ed with), full, multitude, as is worth.

from H4390; full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully.

mâlêʼ in each stem

Qal (Pa'al)

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1

מָלֵ֨אתִי֙ Jer 6:11 Perfect (qatal), 1st person common singular

Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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