[Jean Chauvin]

"Answer: Not at all. To "replenish" something means to “fill” it. So Adam and Eve were told only to “fill” the earth, not “refill” it. We can see this is true in both the dictionary definition and in each of the seven times “replenish” is used in the Bible.

Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

In order to understand a classical English word from the King James Bible, we should use a classical English dictionary, like Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary. Here is how it defines the word "replenish".

Here is the dictionary definition of “replenish”:

“To fill; to stock with numbers or abundance. The magazines are replenished with corn. The springs are replenished with water.
‘Multiply, and replenish the earth,’ Genesis 1.”"

Why go through all that trouble...

...when you can just look up the passage in the NIV where it is far more clear and accurate!

28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.

Jean

[snerkel]

Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary. 1828? Am I reading that correctly?

[newgeezer]

Hey, the NKJV says "fill" as well. We don't need no steenkin' paraphrase to clear that up. ;-) :-)