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Strong's #4446 - מְלֶכֶת

Transliteration

mᵉleketh

Phonetics

mel-eh'-keth

Root Word (Etymology)

from (H4427)

Parts of Speech

Noun Feminine

TWOT

1199c

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) queen

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (5)

Jeremiah 5

NAS (5)

Jeremiah 5

HCS (5)

Jeremiah 5

BSB (5)

Jeremiah 5

ESV (5)

Jeremiah 5

WEB (5)

Jeremiah 5

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2340) k l m (מלכ MLK) AC: Reign CO: King AB: Kingdom: [from: kl- walking among the people]

V) k l m (מלכ MLK) - Reign: To reign over a kingdom as king or queen. KJV (348): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Hophal) reign, king, made, queen, consult, rule, set - Strongs: H4427 (מָלַךְ)

N^m) k l m (מלכ MLK) - I. King:[Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Counsel:[Aramaic only] KJV (2704): king, royal, counsel - Strongs: H4428 (מֶלֶךְ), H4430 (מֶלֶךְ), H4431 (מְלַךְ)

N^f1) e k l m (מלכה MLKH) - Queen: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (37): queen - Strongs: H4433 (מַלְכָּה), H4436 (מַלְכָּה)

N^f2) t k l m (מלכת MLKT) - Queen: KJV (5): queen - Strongs: H4446 (מְלֶכֶת)

N^f3) t f k l m (מלכות MLKWT) - Kingdom: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (148): kingdom, reign, royal, empire, estate, realm, kingly - Strongs: H4437 (מַלְכוּ), H4438 (מַלְכֻוָּה)

a^f1) e k l m m (ממלכה MMLKH) - Kingdom: KJV (117): kingdom, royal, reign - Strongs: H4467 (מַמְלָכָה)

a^f3) t f k l m m (ממלכות MMLKWT) - Kingdom: KJV (9): kingdom, reign - Strongs: H4468 (מַמְלָכוּת)

d^f1) e k f l m (מלוכה MLWKH) - Kingdom: KJV (24): kingdom, royal - Strongs: H4410 (מְלוּכָה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

מְלֶ֫כֶת noun feminine queen (form difficult; compare Ol^{§ 147 d} Kö^{ii, 169n.} Gie^{Jeremiah 7:18} Ba^{NB 165, Anm. 2; ZMG xii. 1887,606}); — only construct הַשָּׁמַיִם׳מ Jeremiah 7:18 4t. Jeremiah = queen of the heavens, a goddess; identification dubious; perhaps= Ištar, Venus, compare Schr^below and others; (> = מְלֶאכֶת (Manuscripts), construct of מְלָאכָה (see לאך), worship of the heavens (Cast^{Lex. Syr.}), or creative work of the heavens, collective = ׳צְבָא הַשּׁ host of heaven, Sta^below (compare ᵐ5); see Schr^{COT Jeremiah 7:18; SBAk 1886,477 ff., ZA iii. 1888,353ff., iv. 1889,74ff.} Sta^{ZAW 1886,123ff. 289 ff.} Kue^{Ges. Abh. 186 ff.} We^{Skizzen iii. 38} Nö^{ZMG xli. 1889,710f.} RS^{Semitic i. 57,172 (ed. 2,57, 189)} Grünb^{ZMG xiii.1888,45}); — only as worshipped by people of Jerusalem ׳הַשּׁ׳לַעֲשׂוֺת כַּוָּנִים לִמְ Jeremiah 7:18 ("" הַסֵּךְ נְסָכִים לֵאלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים); ׳הַשּׁ׳לְקַטֵּר לִמ Jeremiah 44:17,18,19,25 (all "" הַסֵּךְ לָהּ נְסָכִים).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

מְלֶכֶת f. of the Chald. form מְלֵךְ (as on the contrary מַלְכָּה from מֶלֶךְ), a queen. It only occurs, Jeremiah 7:18 -44:1719, 25 Jeremiah 44:25, in which passages מְלֶכֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם “the queen of heaven,” to whom the women of Israel paid divine honours, is either the moon, or Astarte (עַשְׁתֹּרֶת), i.e. the planet Venus. So the LXX. have rendered in chap. 44, and Vulg. always. However not a few copies write fully מְלֶאכֶת worship, i.e. abstr. prop. concr. deity, goddess (of heaven), in like manner the Syriac translator renders it ܕܫܰܡܰܝܳܐ ܦܘܽܠܚܢܳ the worship of heaven.

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List of Word Forms

לִמְלֶ֣כֶת לִמְלֶ֧כֶת למלכת lim·le·ḵeṯ limLechet limleḵeṯ