sa.va describes reaching fullness, especially after eating or receiving provision, and can extend to being filled in other settings.

The verb most often marks the attainment of fullness after eating or receiving abundant provision. It also appears in forms that describe causing others to be filled, and in clauses about fullness or its absence with such objects as the eye, soul, sacrifices, insults, and the days of a life.

1. Reaching fullness from food or provision · dominant

   Qal forms commonly occur after eating or alongside food and abundance. In Deuteronomy 14:29 the APB renders the clause "they shall eat and be satisfied" for the Levite, sojourner, orphan, and widow; Exodus 16:12 similarly places the plural imperfect with eating meat and bread. Nehemiah 9:25 and Hosea 13:6 place the form after abundant food or pasture and before the people grow fat or become self-exalted.

   Deuteronomy 14:29Exodus 16:12Deuteronomy 11:15Nehemiah 9:25Hosea 13:6Proverbs 20:13
2. Causing another to be filled · common

   Hiphil and Piel forms present an agent supplying fullness to a recipient. In Isaiah 58:10 the APB renders a command to "satisfy the afflicted," while Isaiah 58:11 says that the LORD will "satisfy your soul in parched places." Ezekiel 32:4 extends the action to "the living things of all the earth," and Job 38:27 places it with satisfying desolate land so that grass may sprout.

   Isaiah 58:10Isaiah 58:11Ezekiel 32:4Ezekiel 27:33Job 38:27Jeremiah 5:7
3. Fullness or lack of it beyond eating · occasional

   The Qal forms also describe whether a person or thing has reached a limit in non-food settings. Ecclesiastes 1:8 says that the eye is not "satisfied with seeing," while Habakkuk 2:5 describes one who is never satisfied as he gathers nations and peoples. In 1 Chronicles 23:1 and 2 Chronicles 24:15, the form occurs in the statement that David and Jehoiada had reached the full number of their days.

   Ecclesiastes 1:8Ecclesiastes 4:8Habakkuk 2:5Job 19:221 Chronicles 23:12 Chronicles 24:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly uses "satisfied" for fullness after eating or for unmet desire, while also using "filled," "full," and "sated" in other clauses. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings indicate the clause's presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent.