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Lexicon :: Strong's H4438 - malḵûṯ

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מַלְכוּת
Transliteration
malḵûṯ
Pronunciation
mal-kooth'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1199e

Strong’s Definitions

מַלְכוּת malkûwth, mal-kooth'; or מַלְכֻת malkuth; or (in plural) מַלְכֻיָּה malkuyâh; from H4427; a rule; concretely, a dominion:—empire, kingdom, realm, reign, royal.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 91x

The KJV translates Strong's H4438 in the following manner: kingdom (51x), reign (21x), royal (13x), realm (4x), empire (1x), estate (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 91x
The KJV translates Strong's H4438 in the following manner: kingdom (51x), reign (21x), royal (13x), realm (4x), empire (1x), estate (1x).

  1. royalty, royal power, reign, kingdom, sovereign power

    1. royal power, dominion

    2. reign

    3. kingdom, realm

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַלְכוּת malkûwth, mal-kooth'; or מַלְכֻת malkuth; or (in plural) מַלְכֻיָּה malkuyâh; from H4427; a rule; concretely, a dominion:—empire, kingdom, realm, reign, royal.
STRONGS H4438: Abbreviations
† מַלְכוּת noun feminine royalty, royal power, reign, kingdom (chiefly late); — מ׳ absolute Esther 1:9 +; construct 1 Chronicles 12:23 +; suffix מַלְכוּתִי 1 Chronicles 17:14, etc.; plural מַלְכֻיּוֺת Daniel 8:22; —
1. royal power, dominion Numbers 24:7 (with תִּנַשֵּׂא), 1 Samuel 20:31 (with תִּכּוֺן), 1 Kings 2:12 (with id.); compare Jeremiah 10:7; Ecclesiastes 4:14; 1 Chronicles 11:10; 1 Chronicles 12:23; 1 Chronicles 29:30 (|| גְּבוּרָה), 2 Chronicles 33:13; Esther 1:19, royal (queenly) dignity Esther 4:14; 1 Chronicles 14:2 (with נִשֵּׂאת); with לָכַד Daniel 11:21; with הֵכִין (subject י׳) 1 Chronicles 17:11; 1 Chronicles 28:7; 2 Chronicles 12:1 (subject Rehoboam); Israel royalty as belonging to י׳ 1 Chronicles 17:14; dominion of י׳ Psalm 103:19 (with מָֽשְׁלָה), Psalm 145:13 (twice in verse); כְּבוֺד מ׳ Psalm 145:11; כְּבוֺד הֲדַר מ׳ Psalm 145:12; שֵׁבֶט מ׳ Psalm 45:7; כִּסֵּא מ׳ 1 Chronicles 22:10; 1 Chronicles 28:5; 2 Chronicles 7:18; of Persia Esther 1:2; Esther 5:1; בַּיִת לְמ׳ 2 Chronicles 1:18; 2 Chronicles 2:11; בֵּית מ׳ Esther 1:9; Esther 2:16; Esther 5:1 (compare Assyrian bit šarruti DlHWB 171); יֵין מ׳ royal wine Esther 1:7; דְּבַר מ׳ royal command Esther 1:19; הוֺד מ׳ royal honour, majesty 1 Chronicles 29:25; Daniel 11:21; so perhaps also הֶדֶר מ׳ Daniel 11:20 see Bev; עשֶׁר בְּבוֺד מ׳ Esther 1:4; כֶּתֶר מ׳ royal crown Esther 1:11; Esther 2:17; Esther 6:8; לְבוּשׁ מ׳ royal apparel Esther 6:8; Esther 8:15; מ׳ (לְבוּשׁ omitted) Esther 5:1 (queenly attire).
2. reign: 40th year of reign of David 1 Chronicles 26:31 compare 2 Chronicles 3:2; 15:10, 19; 16:1, 12; 35:19; Jeremiah 49:34; Daniel 1:1; also 2 Chronicles 29:19; of Babylonian and Persian kings Jeremiah 52:31 (בִּשְׁנַת מ׳ || 2 Kings 25:27 מָלְכוֺ) Daniel 2:1; Daniel 8:1; Ezra 4:5, 6 (twice in verse); Ezra 7:1; Ezra 8:1; Nehemiah 12:22; Esther 2:16; compare פָּרָס מַלְכוּת עַדמְֿלֹח 2 Chronicles 36:20.
3. kingdom, realm 2 Chronicles 1:1; 11:17; 20:30; Nehemiah 9:35; especially realm of Babylonia and Persia 2 Chronicles 36:22 = Ezra 1:1; Esther 1:14, 20; Esther 2:3; Esther 3:6, 8; Esther 5:3, 6; Esther 7:2; Esther 9:30; Daniel 8:22; Daniel 9:1; Daniel 10:13; compare Daniel 11:2, 4 (twice in verse); Daniel 11:9, 17; Daniel 11:20 הֶדֶר מ׳ = Jerusalem according to Hi., but see 1 above.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

24:7

1 Samuel

20:31

1 Kings

2:12

2 Kings

25:27

1 Chronicles

11:10; 12:23; 12:23; 14:2; 17:11; 17:14; 17:14; 22:10; 26:31; 28:5; 28:7; 29:25; 29:30

2 Chronicles

1:1; 2:11; 3:2; 7:18; 11:17; 12:1; 15:10; 15:19; 16:1; 16:12; 20:30; 29:19; 33:13; 35:19; 36:20; 36:22

Ezra

1:1; 4:5; 4:6; 7:1; 8:1

Nehemiah

9:35; 12:22

Esther

1:2; 1:4; 1:7; 1:9; 1:9; 1:11; 1:14; 1:19; 1:19; 1:20; 2:3; 2:16; 2:16; 2:17; 3:6; 3:8; 4:14; 5:1; 5:1; 5:1; 5:3; 5:6; 6:8; 6:8; 7:2; 8:15; 9:30

Psalms

45:7; 103:19; 145:11; 145:12; 145:13

Ecclesiastes

4:14

Jeremiah

10:7; 49:34; 52:31

Daniel

1:1; 2:1; 8:1; 8:22; 8:22; 9:1; 10:13; 11:2; 11:4; 11:9; 11:17; 11:20; 11:20; 11:21; 11:21

H4438

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Strong's Number H4438 matches the Hebrew מַלְכוּת (malḵûṯ),
which occurs 91 times in 82 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Num 24:7–Est 3:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:7 - There shall come a man out of his seed, and he shall rule over many nations; and the kingdom of Gog shall be exalted, and his kingdom shall be increased.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31 - For [fn]so long as the son of Jessæ lives upon the earth, thy kingdom shall not be established: now then send and take the young man, for he [fn]shall surely die.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:12 - And Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was [fn]established greatly.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:10 - And these are the chiefs of the mighty men, whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:23 - (LXX 12:24) And these are the names of the commanders of the army, who came to David to Chebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him according to the word of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:2 - And David knew that the Lord had designed him to be king over Israel; because his kingdom was highly exalted, on account of his people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:11 - And it shall come to pass when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:14 - And I will establish him in my house and in his kingdom for ever; and his throne shall be set up for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:10 - He shall build a house to my name; and he shall be a son to me, and I will be a father to him; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom in Israel for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - Of the family of Chebron Urias was chief, even of the Chebronites according to their generations, according to their families. In the fortieth year of his reign they were numbered, and there were found mighty men among them in Jazer of Galaad.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:5 - And of all my sons, (for the Lord has given me many sons,) he has chosen Solomon my son, to set him on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:7 - And I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he continue to keep my commandments, and my judgments, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:25 - And the Lord magnified Solomon over all Israel, and gave him royal glory, such as was not upon any king before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:30 - concerning all his reign, and his power, and the times which went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:1 - And Solomon the son of David was established over his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and increased him exceedingly.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:1 - (LXX 1:18) And Solomon said that he would build a house to the name of the Lord, and a house for his kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:12 - (LXX 2:11) And Chiram said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to king David a wise son, and one endowed with knowledge and understanding, who shall build a house for the Lord, and a house for his kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:2 - And he began to build in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:18 - then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom, as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man ruling in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:17 - And they strengthened the kingdom of Juda; and Juda strengthened Roboam the son of Solomon for three years, for he walked three years in the ways of David and Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:1 - And it came to pass when the kingdom of Roboam was established, and when he had grown strong, that he forsook the commandments of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:10 - And they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:19 - And there was no war waged with him until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:1 - And in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Asa, the king of Israel went up against Juda, and built Rama, so as not to allow egress or ingress to Asa king of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:12 - And Asa was diseased in his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, until he was very ill: but in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:30 - And the kingdom of Josaphat was at peace; and his God gave him rest round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - and all the vessels which king Achaz polluted in his reign, in his apostacy, we have prepared and purified: behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:13 - and he prayed to him: and he hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias this passover was kept, after all these things that Josias did in the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - And he carried away the remnant to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of the Medes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:22 - In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, after the fulfilment of the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and told him to make proclamation in writing throughout all his kingdom, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:1 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians, and he issued a proclamation through all his kingdom, and that in writing, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:5 - and continued hiring persons against them, plotting to frustrate their counsel, all the days of Cyrus king of the Persians, and until the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:6 - And in the reign of Assuerus, even in the beginning of his reign, they wrote a letter against the inhabitants of Juda and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:1 - Now after these things, in the reign of Arthasastha king of the Persians, came up Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of Chelcias,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1 - And these are the heads of their families, the leaders that went up with me in the reign of Arthasastha the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:35 - And they did not serve thee in thy kingdom, and in thy great goodness which thou gavest to them, and in the large and fat land which thou didst furnish before them, and they turned not from their evil devices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:22 - The Levites in the days of Eliasib, Joada, and Joa, and Joanan, and Idua, were recorded heads of families: also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:2 - in those days, when king Artaxerxes was on the throne in the city of Susa,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:4 - And after this, after he had shewn to them the wealth of his kingdom, and the abundant glory of his wealth during a hundred and eighty days,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7 - gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:9 - Also Astin the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Artaxerxes dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:11 - to bring in the queen to him, to enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to shew her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations: for she was beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:14 - So Arkesæus, and Sarsathæus, and Malisear, the princes of the Persians and Medes, who were near the king, who sat chief in rank by the king, drew near to him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19 - If then it seem good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: and let not the queen come in to him any more; and let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:20 - And let the law of the king which he shall have made, be widely proclaimed, in his kingdom: and so shall all the women give honour to their husbands, from the poor even to the rich.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - And let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select fair and chaste young damsels and bring them to the city Susa, into the women's apartment, and let them be consigned to the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women; and let things for purification and other attendance be given to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:16 - So Esther went in to king Artaxerxes in the twelfth month, which is Adar, in the seventh year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:17 - And the king loved Esther, and she found favour beyond all the other virgins: and he put on her the queen's crown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6 - and took counsel to destroy utterly all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.

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