Queen
מַלְכָּהStrong’s H4433malkah (mal-kah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Malkah is the Aramaic word usually translated “queen the”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:”
Meaning
- Queen
How it's translated
- queen the 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
מַלְכָּה malkah · queen
queen Aramaic of mal.kah (מַלְכָּה "queen" H4436H)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “queen” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUEEN, noun
- The consort of a king; a queen consort.
- A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a queen-regent; as Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scotland.
- The sovereign of a swarm of bees, or the female of the hive.
All definitions and other forms of “queen”
QUEEN, verb intransitive
To play the queen; to act the part or character of a queen
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.