מְלֵאָה
fulness
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
2 distinct verses where H4395 appears in the Construct state, across 2 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מלאה (mᵉlêʼâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “fulness.” It first appears in Exodus 22:29. It turns up in 8 verses across 7 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 25% of its uses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4395 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 63%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 38%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fulness 1×, Lest the fruit 1×, Offer the first of thy ripe fruits 1×
- American Standard Version: Fulness 1×, Lest the whole fruit 1×, Offer of thy harvest 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Entire harvest 1×, Granaries 1×, Or juice 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Full 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4395 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4395 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4395 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4395 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- fulness, full produce
Word origin
n.f. fulness, full produce;—מ׳ Nu 18:27 Dt 22:9; מְלֵאָֽתְךָ Ex 22:28; = full produce of field Ex 22:28, מ׳ הַזֶּרַע the full produce of the seed Dt 22:9; of winepress Nu 18:27.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מלא (mâlêʼ) (H4392) — full.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מְלֵאָה
- , v. מָלֵא II
מְלֵיאָה
- (b. h.)
- 1. full, v. מָלֵא.
- 2. fulness, full growth. Pesik. Haḥod., p. 53ᵃ (ref. to Ps. LXXXIX, 38, v. preced.) אם זכיתם … למְלֵיאָתָהּ if you will do good, you shall count (your historical records) by the nation’s growth to fulness, opp. פגם decrease; Pesik. R. s. 15, a. e., v. preced. Gen. R. s. 12 נבראו … על מְלֵיאָתָן those things had been created in perfect condition. Gen. R. s. 14 על מְלֵיאָתָהּ על מְלֵיאָתוֹ fully developed. Num. R. s. 12; a. e.—Gitt. 70ᵃ Ar., v. מִלּוּא. e.g. Psalms 89:38
- 3. (the priestly gifts from) the ripe or stored fruits. Tem. 4ᵃ (ref. to Ex. XXII, 28) מ׳ זו ביכורים m’leah means the first fruits; Mekh. Mishp. s. 19 אלו ביכורים הנטלין מהמ׳ that means the first fruits which are taken from the fulness (the stored fruits). Ib. בכורים שהם קרויין … ומ׳ first fruits which go by four names, reshith … and m’leah; Yalk. Ex. 351. e.g. Exodus 22:28
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H4395 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַֽ/מְלֵאָ֤ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 22:9 | 1 |
| הַֽ/מְלֵאָ֥ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 2:13 | 1 |
| וְ/כַֽ/מְלֵאָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 18:27 | 1 |
| מְלֵאֲתִ֣י | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 1:21 | 1 |
| מְלֵאָ֔ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Nahum 3:1 | 1 |
| מְלֵאָ֗ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 22:2 | 1 |
| מְלֵאָ֣ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 23:11 | 1 |
| מְלֵאָתְ/ךָ֥ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 22:29 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
