Help QuickNav Adv. Options
BBE

BBE

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H4399 - mᵊlā'ḵâ

Aa
מְלָאכָה
Transliteration
mᵊlā'ḵâ
Pronunciation
mel-aw-kaw'
Listen
Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as מַלְאָךְ (H4397)
Dictionary Aids

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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

Read the Full Entry

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:2 - And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:3 - And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:11 - Now one day he went into the house to do his work; and not one of the men of the house was inside.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:16 - And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:9 - On six days do all your work:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:8 - If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:3 - And I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise and full of knowledge and expert in every sort of handwork,

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:5 - In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:14 - So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15 - Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2 - Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:21 - And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:24 - Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:29 - The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:31 - And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:33 - Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:35 - To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:1 - So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:2 - Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:3 - And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:4 - Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their work;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:5 - And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - So Moses made an order and had it given out through all the tents, saying, Let no man or woman make any more offerings for the holy place. So the people were kept from giving more.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:7 - For the material they had was enough and more than enough for all the work which had to be done.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:8 - Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:24 - The gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:43 - Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:33 - And he put up the hangings forming the open space round the House and the altar, and put the curtain over the doorway. So Moses made the work complete.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:24 - And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - The dead body of any of these, falling on anything, will make that thing unclean; if it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or bag, whatever it is, if it is used for any purpose, it will have to be put into water, and will be unclean till evening; after that it will be clean.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:48 - If it is in the threads of the linen or of the wool, or in leather, or in anything made of skin;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - And he is to see the mark on the seventh day; if the mark is increased in the clothing, or in the threads of the material, or in the leather, whatever the leather is used for, it is the disease biting into it: it is unclean.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29 - And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:3 - On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:7 - On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:8 - And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:25 - Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:28 - And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30 - And if any person, whoever he may be, on that day does any sort of work, I will send destruction on him from among his people.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:31 - You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:35 - On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:36 - Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:3 - All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:18 - On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:25 - Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:26 - And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an offering of new meal to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work:

Search Results Continued…

1. Currently on page 1/3 (Gen 2:2–Num 28:26) Gen 2:2–Num 28:26

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Num 29:1–2Ch 24:13

3. LOAD PAGE 3 2Ch 29:34–Hag 1:14

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
BBE
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
BBE
Daily Devotionals

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan