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HebrewH4436Noun (Feminine)

מַלְכָּה

mal.kah

34Occurrences
H4436Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a queen

feminine of H4428 (מֶלֶךְ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A queen of the country Sheba (H7614J) living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at Combined with she.va (*שְׁבָא *" of Sheba" H7614J) § queen

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

מַלְכָּה appears 34 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Esther
24
1 Kings
4
2 Chronicles
4
Song of Solomon
2

Key Passages

1 Kings 10:1BSB

Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.

2 Chronicles 9:9BSB

Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

Esther 1:16BSB

And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.

Esther 5:3BSB

“What is it, Queen Esther?” the king inquired. “What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be given to you.”

Esther 7:6BSB

Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!”And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.