Kingship
מְלוּכָהStrong’s H4410melukhah (me-lu-khah)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Melukhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “kingship”, “royalty” and “into kingship”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes;”
Meaning
- Kingship, royalty, kingly office
How it's translated
- the kingship 14
- royalty 7
- kingship 1
- a kingship 1
- into kingship 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 6
- 1 Samuel 5
- 2 Samuel 2
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
- 2 Kings 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 10:16And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.
- 1 Samuel 10:25Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
- 1 Samuel 11:14Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
- 1 Samuel 14:47So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.
- 1 Samuel 18:8And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
- 2 Samuel 12:26And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
Hebrew dictionary
מְלוּכָה melukhah · kingship
kingship, royalty, kingly office
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “kingship” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KING'SHIP, noun
Royalty; the state, office or dignity of a king.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.