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Fill
King James Dictionary
or FILL, Gr. allied perhaps to fold and felt to stuff L. pilus, pileus. We are told that the Gr. to approach, signified originally to thrust or drive, L. pello, and contracted, it is rendered to fill, and is full.
1. Properly, to press to crowd to stuff. Hence, to put or pour in, till the thing will hold no more as, to fill a basket, a bottle, a vessel.
Fill the water pots with water: and they filled them to the brim. John 2 .
2. To store to supply with abundance.
Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. Genesis 1 .
3. To cause to abound to make universally prevalent.
The earth was filled with violence. Genesis 6 .
4. To satisfy to content.
Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? Matthew 15 .
5. To glut to surfeit.
Things that are sweet and fat are more filing.
6. To make plump as, in a good season the grain is well filled. In the summer of 1816, the driest and coldest which the oldest man remembered, the rye was so well filled, that the grain protruded beyond the husk, and a shock yielded a peck more than in common years.
7. To press and dilate on all sides or to the extremities as, the sails were filled.
8. To supply with liquor to pour into as, to fill a glass for a guest.
9. To supply with an incumbent as, to fill an office or vacancy.
10. To hold to possess and perform the duties of to officiate in, as an incumbent as, a king fills a throne the president fills the office of chief magistrate the speaker of the house fills the chair.
11. In seamanship, to brace the sails so that the wind will bear upon them and dilate them.
To fill out, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit.
1. To fill up, to make full.
It pours the bliss that fills up all the mind.
But in this and many other cases, the use of up weakens the force of the phrase.
2. To occupy to fill. Seek to fill up life with useful employments.
3. To fill to occupy the whole extent as, to fill up a given space.
4. To engage or employ as, to fill up time.
5. To complete as, to fill up the measure of sin. Matthew 23 .
6. To complete to accomplish.
And fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ.
Colossians 1 .
FILL,
1. To fill a cup or glass for drinking to give to drink.
In the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double.
Revelation 18 .
2. To grow or become full. corn fills well in a warm season. A mill pond fills during the night.
3. To glut to satiate.
To fill up, to grow or become full. The channel of the river fills up with sand, every spring.
FILL, n. Fullness as much as supplies want as much as gives complete satisfaction. Eat and drink to the fill. take your fill of joy.
The land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. Leviticus 25 .
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Fill'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/fill.html.
