מִלְכָּהMilkâh
Milcah, the name of a Hebrewess and of an Israelite
Pronunciation: mil-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4435
Meanings
1. wife of Nahor (Genesis 11:29; Genesis 22:20; Genesis 22:23)
2. daughter of Zelophehad (of Manasseh) (Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 11:29 Meanwhile, Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. (Milcah and her sister Iscah were daughters of Nahor’s brother Haran.)
- Genesis 22:20 Soon after this, Abraham heard that Milcah, his brother Nahor’s wife, had borne Nahor eight sons.
- Genesis 22:23 (Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) In addition to these eight sons from Milcah,
- Genesis 24:15 Before he had finished praying, he saw a young woman named Rebekah coming out with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham’s brother Nahor and his wife, Milcah.
- Genesis 24:24 “I am the daughter of Bethuel,” she replied. “My grandparents are Nahor and Milcah.
- Genesis 24:47 “Then I asked, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘I am the daughter of Bethuel, and my grandparents are Nahor and Milcah.’ So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her wrists.
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).