The Greek verb empiplemi means to fill up completely, to satisfy, or to satiate. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts of physical satisfaction, spiritual fulfillment, and the reversal of expectations in God's kingdom.
Luke 1:53 records Mary's Magnificat: 'He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.' The verb eneplesethsan โ 'he filled' โ captures the great reversal that characterizes God's kingdom. The hungry receive complete satisfaction; the self-sufficient receive nothing. The word echoes Psalm 107:9: 'For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.' In Romans 15:24, Paul uses it of being 'refreshed' by the Roman believers' company. Theologically, empiplemi points to God as the ultimate satisfier โ the one who alone can fill the God-shaped emptiness in human beings. Augustine's 'our heart is restless until it rests in You' is the experiential description of what empiplemi promises.