replenishing the earth ?

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You:
>     A question that has been troubling me for some time
is : In Gen 1v28 
> God tells them to replenish the earth . This seems to be
an odd thing to
> say  unless the earth had been plenished at one time
already . 

Me:
Insert any of these and it make perfect sense.  Or you can 
invent a whole prior creation the existed and Satan
destroyed and then there was a new "beginning" but I think
if you just return to the original meaning of the word it
is obvious.

You will also notice that it is used 249 times and not two
like in the KJV.

04390 male' {maw-lay'} or mala' (Esth. 7:5) {maw-law'}

a primitive root; TWOT - 1195; v

AV - fill 107, full 48, fulfil 28, consecrate 15,
accomplish 7,
replenish 7, wholly 6, set 6, expired 3, fully 2, gather 2,
overflow 2, satisfy 2, misc 14; 249

1) to fill, be full
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be full
1a1a) fulness, abundance (participle)
1a1b) to be full, be accomplished, be ended
1a2) to consecrate, fill the hand
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be filled, be armed, be satisfied
1b2) to be accomplished, be ended
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to fill
1c2) to satisfy
1c3) to fulfil, accomplish, complete
1c4) to confirm
1d) (Pual) to be filled
1e) (Hithpael) to mass themselves against

http://www.khouse.org/cgi-bin.blb/strongs.pl?book=Gen&chapte
r=1&verse=28&strongs=04390

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