מַמְלָכוּתmamlâkûwth
kingdom, dominion, reign
Pronunciation: mam-law-kooth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4468
Meanings
1. kingdom (Joshua 13:12; Joshua 13:30; Joshua 13:31)
2. dominion, royal power (1 Samuel 15:28; 2 Samuel 16:3; Hosea 1:4)
3. reign (Jeremiah 26:1)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Joshua 13:12 and all the territory of King Og of Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. King Og was the last of the Rephaites, for Moses had attacked them and driven them out.
- Joshua 13:21 The land of Reuben also included all the towns of the plain and the entire kingdom of Sihon. Sihon was the Amorite king who had reigned in Heshbon and was killed by Moses along with the leaders of Midian—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—princes living in the region who were allied with Sihon.
- Joshua 13:27 In the valley were Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, Zaphon, and the rest of the kingdom of King Sihon of Heshbon. The western boundary ran along the Jordan River, extended as far north as the tip of the Sea of Galilee, and then turned eastward.
- Joshua 13:30 Their territory extended from Mahanaim, including all of Bashan, all the former kingdom of King Og, and the sixty towns of Jair in Bashan.
- Joshua 13:31 It also included half of Gilead and King Og’s royal cities of Ashtaroth and Edrei. All this was given to the clans of the descendants of Makir, who was Manasseh’s son.
- 1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to someone else—one who is better than you.
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).