מִלֻּאָה
setting
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- 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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 2 times (67%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4396 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. 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 3 verses
- Exodus 28:17 מִלֻּ֣אַת n c fs cs You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
- Exodus 28:20 בְּ/מִלּוּאֹתָֽ/ם prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
- Exodus 39:13 בְּ/מִלֻּאֹתָֽ/ם prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
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.
“setting” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun מלאה (milluʼâh). With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Exodus, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. First canonically at Exodus 28:17, it enters the text early. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4396 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 3 verses 100%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 100%
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: Inclosings 2×
- American Standard Version: Settings 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Filigree settings 1×, Setting 1×, Settings 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: By 1×, Ornamental settings 1×, Settings 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4396 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4396 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4396 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4396 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- setting (of jewel)
Word origin
n.f. setting of jewel (cf. vb. Pi. 2, Pu.);—cstr. מִלֻּאַת Ex 28:17 מ׳ אֶבֶן (as acc. cogn. with מִלֵּא); cf. sf. מִלּוּאֹתָם (מִלֻּא׳) Ex 28:20; 39:13.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מלא (milluʼ) (H4394) — installation.
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 3 distinct written forms H4396 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ/מִלֻּאֹתָֽ/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 39:13 | 1 |
| בְּ/מִלּוּאֹתָֽ/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 28:20 | 1 |
| מִלֻּ֣אַת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 28:17 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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.
