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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #4435 - מִלְכָּה

Transliteration

Milkâh

Phonetics

mil-kaw'

Root Word (Etymology)

a form of (H4436)

Parts of Speech

proper feminine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Milcah = “queen”

1) daughter of Haran and wife of Nahor, her uncle and Abraham’s brother, to whom she bore 8 children

2) a daughter of Zelophehad and granddaughter of Manasseh

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (11)

Genesis 7

Numbers 3

Joshua 1

NAS (11)

Genesis 7

Numbers 3

Joshua 1

HCS (11)

Genesis 7

Numbers 3

Joshua 1

BSB (13)

Genesis 9

Numbers 3

Joshua 1

ESV (11)

Genesis 7

Numbers 3

Joshua 1

WEB (10)

Genesis 6

Numbers 3

Joshua 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

מִלְכָּה proper name, feminineᵐ5 Μελχα (= מַלְכָּה ? Nö^{ZMG xlii. 1888. 484} compare Phoenician proper name, of deities מלכת; compare Gray^{Prop. N. 116}); —

1 wife of Nahor Genesis 11:29 (twice in verse); Genesis 22:20,23; Genesis 24:15,24,47 (all J).

2 daughter of Zelo-phehad (of Manasseh), Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11; Joshua 17:3 (all P). — Perhaps original town-name, Gray^l.c.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

מִלְכָּה (id., or by the Chald. usage, “counsel”), [Milcah], pr.n. a daughter of Haran, the wife of Nahor, Genesis 11:29, 22:20.

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List of Word Forms

וּמִלְכָּ֖ה וּמִלְכָּ֛ה ומלכה מִלְכָּ֑ה מִלְכָּ֔ה מִלְכָּ֕ה מִלְכָּ֖ה מִלְכָּ֥ה מלכה mil·kāh milKah milkāh ū·mil·kāh umilKah ūmilkāh