melo · fullness

What it means

melo (מְלֹא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fullness”.

All that fills something: what is in the earth or the sea; also a multitude.

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. Everything that is in something: the sea and all that fills it, the earth and its fullness.
2. What fits at once: a handful, or a house full.
3. A multitude, many people gathered.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• full ×15
• fullness ×8
• all that fills it ×6
• what fills it ×6
• handfuls ×2
• handful ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×4
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×5
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×5
• Amos×1
• Micah×1

• Genesis 48:19

  But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he too will become a people, and he too will be great; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become the fullness of the nations.”

• Exodus 9:8

  YHWH said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.

• Exodus 16:32

  Moses said, “This is the thing that YHWH has commanded: ‘A full omer of it is to be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

• Exodus 16:33

  Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put in it a full omer of manna, and set it before YHWH, to be kept throughout your generations.”

• Leviticus 2:2

  He shall bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and he shall take from there his full handful of its fine flour and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall offer up in smoke its memorial portion on the altar, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 5:12

  He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take from it his full handful as its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar, on top of the fire offerings of YHWH; it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 16:12

  And he shall take a full censer of coals of fire from the altar before YHWH, and two handfuls of fine fragrant incense, and bring it inside the veil.

• Numbers 22:18

  But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of YHWH my Elohim, to do anything small or great.

• Numbers 24:13

  ‘If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of YHWH, to do good or bad of my own heart; what YHWH speaks, that I will speak’?

• Deuteronomy 33:16

  and with the choicest of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. Let it come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of the one consecrated among his brothers.

• Judges 6:38

  And it was so. He rose early the next day and squeezed the fleece, and he wrung out dew from the fleece, a full bowl of water.

• 1 Samuel 28:20

  At once Saul fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of the words of Samuel; there was also no strength in him, for he had not eaten bread all day and all night.

• 2 Samuel 8:2

  He struck Moab and measured them with the line, making them lie down on the ground; he measured two lines to put to death and one full line to keep alive. And Moab became David’s servants, bearing tribute.

• 1 Kings 17:12

  She said, “As YHWH your Elohim lives, I have no cake, only a handful of flour in the jar and a little oil in the jug; and look, I am gathering a couple of sticks, and I will go in and prepare it for myself and for my son, and we will eat it and die.”

• 2 Kings 4:39

  One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine and gathered from it wild gourds, his garment full, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were.

• 1 Chronicles 16:32

  Let the sea thunder, and its fullness; let the field exult, and all that is in it.

• Psalms 24:1

  Of David. A psalm. The earth belongs to YHWH, and all that fills it, the world and those who dwell in it.

• Psalms 50:12

  If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for mine is the world and what fills it.

• Psalms 89:11

  Yours are the heavens, yours also the earth; the world and what fills it, you founded them.

• Psalms 96:11

  Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea thunder, and what fills it;

• Psalms 98:7

  Let the sea thunder, and what fills it, the world and those who dwell in it.

• Ecclesiastes 4:6

  Better is a full palm with rest than two full fists with toil and striving after wind.

• Isaiah 6:3

  And one called to another and said, “Holy, holy, holy is YHWH Tsevaot; the fullness of all the earth is his glory.”

• Isaiah 8:8

  and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through, it will reach up to the neck; and the spreading of its wings will be the fullness of the breadth of your land, Immanuel!”

• Isaiah 31:4

  For thus YHWH said to me: “As the lion growls, and the young lion, over its prey, when a full band of shepherds is called out against it, at their voice it is not terrified, and at their tumult it is not abashed, so YHWH Tsevaot will come down to wage war upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

• Isaiah 34:1

  Draw near, nations, to hear, and peoples, pay attention! Let the earth hear, and what fills it, the world and all that comes forth from it.

• Isaiah 42:10

  Sing to YHWH a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and what fills it, coastlands and their inhabitants.

• Jeremiah 8:16

  From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses; at the sound of the neighing of his stallions the whole land quakes; and they come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who live in it.

• Jeremiah 47:2

  Thus says YHWH: Look, waters are rising from the north and will become an overflowing torrent; and they will overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it; and the people will cry out, and every inhabitant of the land will wail,

• Ezekiel 12:19

  And say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, concerning the ground of Israel: Their bread with anxiety they will eat, and their water appalled they will drink, so that its land may be desolate of its fullness because of the violence of all those who live in it.

• Ezekiel 19:7

  And he knew his widows, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and all that fills it, at the sound of his roaring.

• Ezekiel 30:12

  And I will make the channels dry, and I will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make desolate the land and its fullness by the hand of strangers. I, YHWH, have spoken.

• Ezekiel 32:15

  When I make the land of Egypt a desolation and the land is desolated of its fullness, when I strike all who live in it, they will know that I am YHWH.

• Ezekiel 41:8

  And I saw that the house had a height all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed, six cubits to the joint.

• Amos 6:8

  Adonai YHWH has sworn by his soul, declares YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot: I abhor the pride of Jacob, and his citadels I hate; and I will hand over the city and all that fills it.

• Micah 1:2

  Hear, peoples, all of you; pay attention, earth, and all that fills it; and let Adonai YHWH be a witness against you, Adonai from his holy temple.

And 2 more times.