milu · setting, ordination

What it means

milu (מִלֻּא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “setting, ordination”.

Setting: the mounting of a stone in its place. Also the ordination of the priests and its sacrifice.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Mounting precious stones in gold: the setting of the gems.
2. The ordination of the priests: the rite in which they were installed in office.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• ordination ×11
• setting ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×8
• Leviticus×6
• 1 Chronicles×1

• Exodus 25:7

  onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

• Exodus 29:22

  You shall take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh, for it is a ram of ordination,

• Exodus 29:26

  You shall take the breast from the ram of ordination that is for Aaron and wave it as a wave offering before YHWH, and it shall be yours as a portion.

• Exodus 29:27

  You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, which was waved and which was lifted up from the ram of ordination, from what is for Aaron and from what is for his sons.

• Exodus 29:31

  You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

• Exodus 29:34

  If any of the flesh of ordination or of the bread remains until the morning, you shall burn what remains with fire; it shall not be eaten, for it is holy.

• Exodus 35:9

  and onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

• Exodus 35:27

  And the chiefs brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece,

• Leviticus 7:37

  This is the instruction for the burnt offering, for the grain offering, for the sin offering, for the guilt offering, for the ordination, and for the sacrifice of peace,

• Leviticus 8:22

  He presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

• Leviticus 8:28

  Moses took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar on top of the burnt offering; they were an ordination offering for a pleasing aroma; it was a fire offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 8:29

  Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before YHWH; from the ram of ordination it was Moses’ portion, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 8:31

  Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of ordination, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

• Leviticus 8:33

  You shall not go out from the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day the days of your ordination are completed, for for seven days you will be ordained.

• 1 Chronicles 29:2

  With all my strength I have prepared for the house of my Elohim the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and the wood for the things of wood; onyx stones and stones for setting, stones of antimony and of colors, and every precious stone, and marble stones in abundance.