HebrewH4409Proper Noun (Masculine)

מַלּוּךְ

mal.lukh

4Occurrences
H4409Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Malluk, the name of five Israelites

or מַלּוּכִי; (Nehemiah 12:14), from H4427 (מָלַךְ); remnant;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at § Malluch or Melicu = "counsellor" 1) a Merarite Levite, son of Hashabiah 2) a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of ) a descendant of Harim who had a foreign wife in the time of ) a priest who signed the covenant with Nehemiah 5) one of the leaders of the people who signed the covenant with 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

מַלּוּךְ appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezra
2
Nehemiah
2

Key Passages

Ezra 10:29BSB

From the descendants of Bani:Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.

Ezra 10:32BSB

Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.

Nehemiah 12:2BSB

Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

Nehemiah 12:14BSB

of Malluchi, Jonathan;of Shebaniah, Joseph;

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