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title: מְלָא — fill · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: מְלָא (lemma:מְלָא), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 2 times: fill. BDB 1906: vb. fill. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְלָא

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«מְלָא» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **fill** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:מְלָא · **BDB:** מְלָא

### Glosses

he.was.filled (1); it.filled (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fill [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5dc_5b8_5d0/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. fill [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5dc_5b8_5d0/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. fill (v. BH);— Pf. 3 fs. מְלַאת Dn 2:35 (c. acc.). Pf. 3 ms. הִתְמְלִי חֱמָא 3:19 was filled with rage.

### Jastrow 1903

מְלָא

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** v. מְלֵי

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (24 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְלָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5dc_5b8_5d0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 3:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.19/)

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בֵּאדַ֨יִן נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֜ר הִתְמְלִ֣י חֱמָ֗א וּצְלֵ֤ם אַנְפּ֙וֹהִי֙ אֶשְׁתַּנִּ֔י עַל־שַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֖ךְ וַעֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ עֲבֵ֣ד נְג֑וֹ עָנֵ֤ה וְאָמַר֙ לְמֵזֵ֣א לְאַתּוּנָ֔א חַ֨ד־שִׁבְעָ֔ה עַ֛ל דִּ֥י חֲזֵ֖ה לְמֵזְיֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* then Nebuchadnezzar he.was.filled anger and the.image of his.face it.was.changed against Shadrach Meshach and.Abednego and.Abednego \[he.was\].replying and \[he.was\].saying to heat (et) the furnace one seven over that \[was\].proper to heat it

*JPS 1917:* Then was Nebuchadnezzar filled with fury, and the form of his visage was changed, against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

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[Daniel 2:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.35/)

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בֵּאדַ֣יִן דָּ֣קוּ כַחֲדָ֡ה פַּרְזְלָא֩ חַסְפָּ֨א נְחָשָׁ֜א כַּסְפָּ֣א וְדַהֲבָ֗א וַהֲווֹ֙ כְּע֣וּר מִן־אִדְּרֵי־קַ֔יִט וּנְשָׂ֤א הִמּוֹן֙ רוּחָ֔א וְכָל־אֲתַ֖ר לָא־הִשְׁתֲּכַ֣ח לְה֑וֹן וְאַבְנָ֣א ׀ דִּֽי־מְחָ֣ת לְצַלְמָ֗א הֲוָ֛ת לְט֥וּר רַ֖ב וּמְלָ֥ת כָּל־אַרְעָֽא׃

*Word for word:* then they.were.shattered as one the iron the clay the bronze the silver and the gold and they.were like chaff from threshing.floors of.summer and it.carried.away them the wind and any place not it.was.found for them and the stone which it.struck (et) the image it.became (into).a mountain great and it.filled all the earth

*JPS 1917:* Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them; and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

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