To fill entirely
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Gemizo is the Greek verb for filling or making full. It can describe ordinary physical filling, as when servants fill water jars, baskets are filled with leftover bread, a sponge is filled with sour wine, or a boat is being swamped.
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Gemizo is the Greek verb for filling or making full. It can describe ordinary physical filling, as when servants fill water jars, baskets are filled with leftover bread, a sponge is filled with sour wine, or a boat is being swamped.
The BSB source-word alignment has 9 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include filled (3), Fill (1), they filled (1), to fill (1), was being swamped (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 4:37. Its strongest book concentrations include John (3), Luke (2), Mark (2), Revelation (2).
Gemizo is the Greek verb for filling or making full. It can describe ordinary physical filling, as when servants fill water jars, baskets are filled with leftover bread, a sponge is filled with sour wine, or a boat is being swamped. It can also carry narrative and theological weight when fullness reveals abundance, invitation, desperation, danger, or divine glory.
In John 2, the servants fill the jars before Jesus reveals His glory at Cana. In John 6, the baskets are filled after the feeding sign, making the abundance visible. In Luke's parables, a house is filled with guests while the prodigal longs to fill himself with animal food. Revelation's temple is filled with smoke from God's glory and power. Gemizo therefore teaches fullness by scene, not by slogan.
Gemizo names the act of filling, but its contexts range from household obedience and leftover abundance to storm danger, parable invitation, prodigal hunger, and temple glory. The word asks what is being filled and what that fullness reveals.
Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim.
The servants fill the jars with water before Jesus turns the water to wine, so the verb serves obedient preparation in the first sign.
So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
The filled baskets display abundance after the feeding sign and keep the leftovers from being treated as an incidental detail.
So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.
The master's desire for a full house belongs to the banquet parable's invitation logic, not to mere crowd size.
He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
The prodigal longs to fill himself with pods, exposing need and humiliation before his return.
Soon a violent windstorm came up, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was being swamped.
The boat is being filled by waves, showing that fullness can signal danger rather than blessing.
And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
The temple is filled with smoke from God's glory and power, placing the verb inside holy awe and judgment completion.
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Greek word. To fill completely or to capacity, often with emphasis on fullness achieved rather than mere partial filling.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
9 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 9 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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Gemizo helps teachers slow down with the concrete details of Scripture. At Cana, full jars matter because servants obey Jesus' command before the sign reveals His glory. After the feeding sign, full baskets testify that Jesus' provision exceeds the original lack. In Luke 14, the full house displays the master's generous invitation. In Luke 15, the desired filling is pathetic and painful because the son is hungry among pigs.
In Mark 4, a filling boat is a threat. In Revelation 15, a filled temple is the smoke of divine glory and power as judgment reaches completion. The word itself does not make a doctrine of fullness. It gives the reader a repeated textual cue: ask what is filled, who fills it, and whether the fullness reveals provision, peril, invitation, repentance, or holy presence.
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Gemizo focuses on making something full. It needs a subject, object, and scene to be interpreted responsibly; the same filling action can serve sign, danger, invitation, hunger, or glory.
Biblical fullness can reveal God's generosity, human emptiness, creation's danger, or holy presence. The New Testament gathers those possibilities around Jesus' signs, parables of invitation and repentance, storm deliverance, and visions of God's glory.
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