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Lexicon :: Strong's H4399 - mᵊlā'ḵâ

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מְלָאכָה
Transliteration
mᵊlā'ḵâ
Pronunciation
mel-aw-kaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as מַלְאָךְ (H4397)
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TWOT Reference: 1068b

Strong’s Definitions

מְלָאכָה mᵉlâʼkâh, mel-aw-kaw'; from the same as H4397; properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor):—business, cattle, industrious, occupation, ( -pied), officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 167x

The KJV translates Strong's H4399 in the following manner: work (129x), business (12x), workmen (with H6213) (7x), workmanship (5x), goods (2x), cattle (1x), stuff (1x), thing (1x), miscellaneous (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 167x
The KJV translates Strong's H4399 in the following manner: work (129x), business (12x), workmen (with H6213) (7x), workmanship (5x), goods (2x), cattle (1x), stuff (1x), thing (1x), miscellaneous (9x).

  1. occupation, work, business

    1. occupation, business

    2. property

    3. work (something done or made)

    4. workmanship

    5. service, use

    6. public business

      1. political

      2. religious

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מְלָאכָה mᵉlâʼkâh, mel-aw-kaw'; from the same as H4397; properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor):—business, cattle, industrious, occupation, ( -pied), officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
STRONGS H4399: Abbreviations
מְלָאכָה 167 noun feminine occupation, work (for *מַלְאָכָה; compare Phoenician מלאכת labour) — מ׳ Exodus 12:16 102 times; מְלָ֑אכֶת 2 Chronicles 13:10; construct מְלֶאכֶת Exodus 35:24 + 42 times; suffix מְלַאכְתְּךָ Jonah 1:8; מְלַאכְתֶּ֑ךָ Exodus 20:9 + 2 times; מְלַאכְתּוֺ Genesis 2:2 + 13 times; plural construct מַלְאֲכוֺת 1 Chronicles 28:19; suffix מַלְאֲכוֺתֶיךָ Psalm 73:28; —
1. occupation, business, מַה מְּלַאכְתְּךָ what is thy occupation Jonah 1:8; business of a steward Genesis 39:11 (J); diligent in business Proverbs 22:29; slack in business Proverbs 18:9.
2. property in which one is occupied, רעהוּ מ׳ his neighbour's property Exodus 22:7; Exodus 22:10 (E); possessions of herds and flocks Genesis 33:14 (J), 1 Samuel 15:9 (compare מִקְנֶה); רבה מ׳ great property 2 Chronicles 17:13.
3. work as something done or made:
a. of God in creation Genesis 2:2 (twice in verse); Genesis 2:3 (P), in judgment Jeremiah 50:25, in general Psalm 73:28.
b. of men, עור מ׳ leather-work Leviticus 13:48, 51 (P), השׂדה מ׳ work in the field 1 Chronicles 27:26; in building Proverbs 24:27 +, the walls of Jerusalem Nehemiah 4:5 +, making the tabernacle and its furniture Exodus 36:2 +, the temple 1 Kings 5:30 +; work of the potter Jeremiah 18:3, of the seaman Psalm 107:23, of the Levites 1 Chronicles 26:29, of priests in the sacrifices 2 Chronicles 29:34; † מְלָאכֶת (ה)עֲבֹדָה phrase of P, Exodus 35:24; Exodus 36:1, 3; Leviticus 23:7, 8, 21, 25, 35, 36; Numbers 28:18, 25, 26; Numbers 29:1, 12, 35 also 1 Chronicles 9:13; 1 Chronicles 9:19; 1 Chronicles 28:13; 1 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 24:12; לעבדה המ׳ 1 Chronicles 23:24; עבדה למ׳ Exodus 36:5 (P); compare the phrase עֹשֵׂה המ׳ workmen Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 2:16; עֹשִׂים במ׳ 1 Kings 5:30; 1 Kings 9:23 +; כל מ׳ any work forbidden on the Sabbath Exodus 20:9, 10; Leviticus 23:3 (P) Deuteronomy 5:13, 14; Jeremiah 17:22, 24; on holy convocations Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 16:29; Leviticus 23:28, 30, 31; Numbers 29:7 (P).
† 4. workmanship, כל מלאכה in every kind of workmanship, phrase of P: Exodus 31:3, 5; Exodus 35:29, 31, 33, 35; and Chronicles: 1 Chronicles 22:15; 1 Chronicles 28:21; 1 Chronicles 29:5; 1 Kings 7:14.
† 5. service, use Leviticus 7:24; Leviticus 11:32; Judges 16:11; Ezekiel 28:13.
† 6. public business:
a. political 1 Kings 11:28; 1 Chronicles 29:6; Daniel 8:27; Esther 3:9; Esther 9:3.
b. religious, putting away foreign wives Ezra 10:13; יהוה מ׳ 1 Chronicles 26:30; הַקֹּדֶשׁ מ׳ Exodus 36:4; Exodus 38:24 (P), קדשׁ הקדשׁים מ׳ 1 Chronicles 6:34; אהל מ׳ מועד Exodus 35:21 (P), בית י׳ מ׳ 1 Chronicles 23:4; Ezra 3:8; Ezra 6:22; Nehemiah 10:34; Nehemiah 11:22.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:2; 2:2; 2:3; 33:14; 39:11

Exodus

12:1; 12:16; 12:16; 20:9; 20:9; 20:10; 22:7; 22:10; 31:3; 31:5; 35:21; 35:24; 35:24; 35:29; 35:31; 35:33; 35:35; 36:1; 36:2; 36:3; 36:4; 36:5; 38:24

Leviticus

7:24; 11:32; 13:48; 13:51; 16:29; 23:3; 23:7; 23:8; 23:21; 23:25; 23:28; 23:30; 23:31; 23:35; 23:36

Numbers

28:18; 28:25; 28:26; 29:1; 29:7; 29:12; 29:35

Deuteronomy

5:13; 5:14

Judges

16:11

1 Samuel

15:9

1 Kings

7:14; 9:23; 11:28

1 Chronicles

6:34; 9:13; 9:19; 22:15; 23:4; 23:24; 26:29; 26:30; 27:26; 28:13; 28:19; 28:20; 28:21; 29:5; 29:6

2 Chronicles

13:10; 17:13; 24:12; 29:34

Ezra

3:8; 3:9; 6:22; 10:13

Nehemiah

2:16; 4:5; 10:34; 11:22

Esther

3:9; 9:3

Psalms

73:28; 73:28; 107:23

Proverbs

18:9; 22:29; 24:27

Jeremiah

17:22; 17:24; 18:3; 50:25

Ezekiel

28:13

Daniel

8:27

Jonah

1:8; 1:8

H4399

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Strong's Number H4399 matches the Hebrew מְלָאכָה (mᵊlā'ḵâ),
which occurs 167 times in 149 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 2:2–Num 28:26)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:2 - and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:3 - And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant, and I -- I lead on gently, according to the foot of the work which is before me, and to the foot of the children, until that I come unto my lord, to Seir.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:11 - and it cometh to pass about this day, that he goeth into the house to do his work, and there is none of the men of the house there in the house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:16 - 'And in the first day is a holy convocation, and in the seventh day ye have a holy convocation; any work is not done in them, only that which is eaten by any person -- it alone is done by you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9 - six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - and the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, --

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:8 - 'If the thief is not found, then the master of the house hath been brought near unto God, whether he hath not put forth his hand against the work of his neighbour;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - an oath of Jehovah is between them both, that he hath not put forth his hand against the work of his neighbour, and its owner hath accepted, and he doth not repay;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:3 - and I fill him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:5 - and in graving of stone for settings, and in graving of wood to work in all work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:14 - and ye have kept the sabbath, for it is holy to you, he who is polluting it is certainly put to death -- for any who doeth work in it -- that person hath even been cut off from the midst of his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15 - 'Six days is work done, and in the seventh day is a sabbath of holy rest to Jehovah; any who doeth work in the sabbath-day is certainly put to death,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2 - Six days is work done, and on the seventh day there is to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah; any who doeth work in it is put to death;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:21 - and they come in -- every man whom his heart hath lifted up, and every one whom his spirit hath made willing -- they have brought in the heave-offering of Jehovah for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:24 - every one lifting up a heave-offering of silver and brass have brought in the heave-offering of Jehovah; and every one with whom hath been found shittim wood for any work of the service brought it in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:29 - every man and woman (whom their heart hath made willing to bring in for all the work which Jehovah commanded to be done by the hand of Moses) of the sons of Israel brought in a willing-offering to Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:31 - and He doth fill him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:33 - and in graving of stones for settings, and in graving of wood to work in any work of design.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:35 - He hath filled them with wisdom of heart to do every work, of engraver, and designer, and embroiderer (in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in linen), and weaver, who do any work, and of designers of designs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:1 - And Bezaleel, and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Jehovah hath given wisdom and understanding to know to do every work of the service of the sanctuary, have done according to all that Jehovah commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:2 - And Moses calleth unto Bezaleel, and unto Aholiab, and unto every wise-hearted man in whose heart Jehovah hath given wisdom, every one whom his heart lifted up, to come near unto the work to do it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:3 - And they take from before Moses all the heave-offering which the sons of Israel have brought in for the work of the service of the sanctuary to do it; and still they have brought in unto him a willing-offering morning by morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:4 - And all the wise men, who are doing all the work of the sanctuary, come each from his work which they are doing,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:5 - and speak unto Moses, saying, 'The people are multiplying to bring in more than sufficient for the service of the work which Jehovah commanded to make.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - And Moses commandeth, and they cause a voice to pass over through the camp, saying, 'Let not man or woman make any more work for the heave-offering of the sanctuary;' and the people are restrained from bringing,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:7 - and the work hath been sufficient for them, for all the work, to do it, and to leave.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8 - And all the wise-hearted ones among the doers of the work make the tabernacle; ten curtains of twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubs, work of a designer, he hath made them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24 - All the gold which is prepared for the work in all the work of the sanctuary (and it is the gold of the wave-offering) is twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:43 - and Moses seeth all the work, and lo, they have done it as Jehovah hath commanded; so they have done. And Moses doth bless them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:33 - And he raiseth up the court round about the tabernacle, and about the altar, and placeth the covering of the gate of the court; and Moses completeth the work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:24 - and the fat of a carcase, and the fat of a torn thing is prepared for any work, but ye do certainly not eat it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - 'And anything on which any one of them falleth, in their death, is unclean, of any vessel of wood or garment or skin or sack, any vessel in which work is done is brought into water, and hath been unclean till the evening, then it hath been clean;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:48 - or in the warp, or in the woof, of linen or of wool, or in a skin, or in any work of skin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - and he hath seen the plague on the seventh day, and the plague hath spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, of all that is made of skin for work; the plague is a fretting leprosy, it is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29 - 'And it hath been to you for a statute age-during, in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month, ye humble yourselves, and do no work -- the native, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:3 - six days is work done, and in the seventh day is a sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye do no work; it is a sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:7 - on the first day ye have a holy convocation, ye do no servile work;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:8 - and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye do no servile work.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - and ye have proclaimed on this self-same day: a holy convocation is to you, ye do no servile work -- a statute age-during in all your dwellings, to your generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:25 - ye do no servile work, and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:28 - and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30 - and any person who doth any work in this self-same day I have even destroyed that person from the midst of his people;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:31 - ye do no work -- a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:35 - on the first day is a holy convocation, ye do no servile work,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:36 - seven days ye bring near a fire-offering to Jehovah, on the eighth day ye have a holy convocation, and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah; it is a restraint, ye do no servile work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:3 - from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:18 - in the first day is an holy convocation, ye do no servile work,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:25 - and on the seventh day a holy convocation ye have, ye do no servile work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:26 - 'And in the day of the first-fruits, in your bringing near a new present to Jehovah, in your weeks, a holy convocation ye have; ye do no servile work;

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