'Fill' in the Bible

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to restore every man’s money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. And thus it was done for them.

Then he commanded his house steward, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.

Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.

and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied,

Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have selected a king for Myself among his sons.”

Then he arranged the wood and cut the ox in pieces and laid it on the wood.

“He will yet fill your mouth with laughterAnd your lips with shouting.

“Listen carefully to my speech,And let my declaration fill your ears.

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledgeAnd fill himself with the east wind?

“I would present my case before HimAnd fill my mouth with arguments.

“Can you fill his skin with harpoons,Or his head with fishing spears?

From men with Your hand, O Lord,From men of the world, whose portion is in this life,And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;They are satisfied with children,And leave their abundance to their babes.

They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.

“I, the Lord, am your God,Who brought you up from the land of Egypt;Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

Fill their faces with dishonor,That they may seek Your name, O Lord.

The trees of the Lord drink their fill,The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

He will judge among the nations,He will fill them with corpses,He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.

With which the reaper does not fill his hand,Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;

We will find all kinds of precious wealth,We will fill our houses with spoil;

“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning;Let us delight ourselves with caresses.

To endow those who love me with wealth,That I may fill their treasuries.

The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways,But a good man will be satisfied with his.

“Then it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through,It will reach even to the neck;And the spread of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

“Prepare for his sons a place of slaughterBecause of the iniquity of their fathers.They must not arise and take possession of the earthAnd fill the face of the world with cities.”

In the days to come Jacob will take root,Israel will blossom and sprout,And they will fill the whole world with fruit.

“But you who forsake the Lord,Who forget My holy mountain,Who set a table for Fortune,And who fill cups with mixed wine for Destiny,

then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Behold I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land—the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—with drunkenness!

I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers,Nor did I exult.Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone,For You filled me with indignation.

“Can a man hide himself in hiding placesSo I do not see him?” declares the Lord.“Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

“I will fill the soul of the priests with abundance,And My people will be satisfied with My goodness,” declares the Lord.

‘While they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with the corpses of men whom I have slain in My anger and in My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their wickedness:

For that day belongs to the Lord God of hosts,A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes;And the sword will devour and be satiatedAnd drink its fill of their blood;For there will be a slaughter for the Lord God of hosts,In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!The Lord has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes,Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it;For it is the vengeance of the Lord, vengeance for His temple.

The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself:“Surely I will fill you with a population like locusts,And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you.”

He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you.” Then I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.

And He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” Thus they went out and struck down the people in the city.

And He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Enter between the whirling wheels under the cherubim and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And he entered in my sight.

Put in it the pieces,Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder;Fill it with choice bones.

“He and his people with him,The most ruthless of the nations,Will be brought in to destroy the land;And they will draw their swords against EgyptAnd fill the land with the slain.

“I will lay your flesh on the mountainsAnd fill the valleys with your refuse.

I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will fall.

“And I will punish on that day all who leap on the temple threshold,Who fill the house of their lord with violence and deceit.

I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord of hosts.

For I will bend Judah as My bow,I will fill the bow with Ephraim.And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece;And I will make you like a warrior’s sword.

Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.

Jesus *said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.)

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.