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Lexicon :: Strong's H4438 - malḵûṯ

Aa
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 - Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31 - For while the son of Jesse is living on the earth, your position is unsafe and your kingdom is in danger. So make him come here to me, for it is certainly right for him to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:12 - And Solomon took his place on the seat of David his father, and his kingdom was made safe and strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:10 - Now these are the chief of David's men of war who were his strong supporters in the kingdom, and, with all Israel, made him king, as the Lord had said about Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:23 - These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:2 - And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, lifting up his kingdom on high because of his people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:11 - And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:14 - But I will make his place in my house and in my kingdom certain for ever; and the seat of his authority will never be overturned.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:10 - He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of all the Hebronites, in their generations by families. In the fortieth year of the rule of David a search was made, and able men were seen among them at Jazer of Gilead.

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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 a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:7 - I will keep his kingdom in its place for ever, if he is strong at all times to do my orders and keep my rules, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:25 - And the Lord made Solomon great in the eyes of all Israel, clothing him with glory and honour such as no other king in Israel had had before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:30 - Together with all his rule and his power, and the events which took place in his time, in Israel and in all the kingdoms of other lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:1 - And Solomon, the son of David, made himself strong in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him very great.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:1 - Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:12 - And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:2 - The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:18 - Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:17 - So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:1 - Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:10 - So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:19 - And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:1 - In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:12 - In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:30 - So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for the Lord gave him rest on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:19 - And all the vessels which were turned out by King Ahaz in his sin while he was king, we have put in order and made holy, and now they are in their places before the altar of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:13 - And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the rule of Josiah this Passover was kept.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - And all who had not come to death by the sword he took away prisoners to Babylon; and they became servants to him and to his sons till the kingdom of Persia came to power:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:22 - Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the words which the Lord had said by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, and he made a public statement and had it given out through all his kingdom and put in writing, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:1 - Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:5 - And they gave payment to men who made designs against them and kept them from effecting their purpose, all through the time of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:6 - And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:1 - Now after these things, when Artaxerxes was king of Persia, Ezra, the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1 - Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when Artaxerxes was king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:35 - For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:22 - The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were listed as heads of families; and the priests, when Darius the Persian was king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:2 - That in those days, when King Ahasuerus was ruling in Shushan, his strong town,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:4 - And for a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honour which were his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7 - And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:9 - And Vashti the queen gave a feast for the women in the house of King Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:11 - That Vashti the queen was to come before him, crowned with her crown, and let the people and the captains see her: for she was very beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:14 - And second only to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of Persia and Media, who were friends of the king, and had the first places in the kingdom:)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19 - If it is pleasing to the king, let an order go out from him, and let it be recorded among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it may never be changed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her place to another who is better than she.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:20 - And when this order, given by the king, is made public through all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give honour to their husbands, great as well as small.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:16 - So Esther was taken in to King Ahasuerus in his house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his rule.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:17 - And Esther was more pleasing to the king than all the women, and to his eyes she was fairer and more full of grace than all the other virgins: so he put his crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6 - But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

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