מְלוּכָהmᵉlûwkâh

kingship, royalty, kingship, kingly office, royalty (1 Samuel 10:16; 1 Samuel 10:25; 1 Samuel 11:14; 1 Samuel 18:5; 1 Kings 2:15)

Pronunciation: mel-oo-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4410

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Where it appears

Appears 24 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 10:16 “He told us that the donkeys had already been found,” Saul replied. But Saul didn’t tell his uncle what Samuel said about the kingdom.
  • 1 Samuel 10:25 Then Samuel told the people what the rights and duties of a king were. He wrote them down on a scroll and placed it before the Lord. Then Samuel sent the people home again.
  • 1 Samuel 11:14 Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us all go to Gilgal to renew the kingdom.”
  • 1 Samuel 14:47 Now when Saul had secured his grasp on Israel’s throne, he fought against his enemies in every direction—against Moab, Ammon, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. And wherever he turned, he was victorious.
  • 1 Samuel 18:8 This made Saul very angry. “What’s this?” he said. “They credit David with ten thousands and me with only thousands. Next they’ll be making him their king!”
  • 2 Samuel 12:26 Meanwhile, Joab was fighting against Rabbah, the capital of Ammon, and he captured the royal fortifications.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).