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HebrewH4441Proper Noun (Masculine)

מַלְכִּיָּהוּ

mal.kiy.yah

13Occurrences
H4441Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Malkijah, the name of ten Israelites

or מַלְכִּיָּהוּlemma מַלְכִּיָהוּ missing dagesh, corrected to מַלְכִּיָּהוּ; (Jeremiah [38:6), from H4428 (מֶלֶךְ) and H3050 (יָהּ); king of (i.e. appointed by) Jah;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at ; son of: Jeatherai (H2979); father of: Baaseiah (H1202) § Malchijah or Malchiah or Melchiah = "my king is Jehovah" 1) the father of Pashur in the time of Jeremiah 2) the son of Hammelech into whose dungeon Jeremiah was cast 3) the head of the 5th course of priests in the time of ) one of the priests who was at the reading of the law by Ezra, sealed the covenant with Nehemiah, and was at the dedication of the wall with Nehemiah 5) a Levite ancestor of Asaph and descendant of Levi through Gershon 6) son of Parosh who put away a foreign wife in the time of ) son of Harim who put away a foreign wife and helped repair the wall and the Tower of Ovens in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah 8) son of Rechab, leader of the district of Beth Haccerem, who helped repair the Refuse Gate in the time of Nehemiah 9) a goldsmith who helped repair the wall in the time of Nehemiah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

מַלְכִּיָּהוּ appears 13 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Nehemiah
6
Jeremiah
3
1 Chronicles
2
Ezra
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 24:9BSB

the fifth to Malchijah,the sixth to Mijamin,

Ezra 10:25BSB

And among the other Israelites, from the descendants of Parosh:Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah.

Jeremiah 21:1BSB

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,

Jeremiah 38:6BSB

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Nehemiah 12:42BSB

and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. Then the choirs sang out under the direction of Jezrahiah.

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