μεστ-όω G3325
μεστόω — to fill completely, make full of something
This verb appears in Acts 2:13, where mockers dismiss the Pentecost disciples as 'filled with new wine' (literally 'having been filled full of sweet wine'). The word means to fill completely or saturate. The accusation was that the disciples were drunk, explaining their strange behavior and incomprehensible speech. Peter immediately refutes this, pointing out it's only nine in the morning. The irony is profound: they were indeed filled, but not with wine — they were filled with the Holy Spirit. This filling produced not drunkenness but powerful testimony in multiple languages, fulfilling Joel's prophecy.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The perfect passive participle nominative masculine plural 'having been filled' describes their supposed state. Cross-linguistic evidence (Spanish 'llenos,' French 'remplir') emphasizes complete saturation. The mockers' explanation substitutes physical intoxication for spiritual filling, missing that genuine divine empowerment was occurring, though it manifested in ways that seemed irrational to skeptical observers. 1×
AR["مَمْلُوءُونَ"]·ben["পরিপূর্ণ"]·DE["μεμεστωμένοι"]·EN["having-been-filled"]·FR["remplir"]·heb["מְלֵאִים"]·HI["भरे-हुए-हैं"]·ID["dipenuhi"]·IT["riempire"]·jav["kaisian"]·KO["다른-이-에게"]·PT["estão-cheios"]·RU["наполненные"]·ES["llenos"]·SW["wamejawa"]·urd["بھرے-ہوئے"]
Related Senses
H3605 1. all, every, whole (5352×)H0259 1. one (cardinal numeral) (940×)H8147 1. cardinal number two (666×)G3956 1. all (collective plural) (616×)H3967 1. cardinal numeral hundred (550×)H1419a 1. great, large (general quality) (486×)H7969 1. cardinal number three (431×)H0505 1. cardinal number thousand (427×)H7651 1. seven (cardinal number) (393×)G1520 1. cardinal number one (339×)H6240 1. ten (cardinal number) (334×)H6242 1. twenty (cardinal number) (315×)H2568 1. cardinal number five (309×)H0702 1. four (cardinal number) (277×)G3956 2. every, each (distributive) (227×)H8337 1. six (cardinal number) (215×)G3956 3. all things, everything (substantive) (211×)G3956 4. (187×)H6235 1. ten (177×)G3173 1. great in size or extent (176×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
μεστ-όω, fill full of, with genitive of things, ὀργῆς μ. τινά Refs 5th c.BC+:—passive, to be filled or full of, κτύπου Refs; of persons, παρρησίας μεστοῦσθαι καὶ ἐλευθερίας Refs 5th c.BC+; and in medical sense, ἀγγεῖα μεμεστωμένα Refs 2nd c.AD+