מְלוּכָה
me.lu.khah
“kingship”
Definition
something ruled, i.e. a realm
feminine passive participle of H4427 (מָלַךְ);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
מְלוּכָה appears 22 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
and he failed to inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.
Then Samuel explained to the people the rights of kingship. He wrote them on a scroll and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, each to his own home.
In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
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