Queen
מַלְכָּהStrong’s H4436malkah (mal-kah)
Appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Malkah is the Hebrew word usually translated “queen”, “queen of” and “queens”. It appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.”
Meaning
- A queen of the country Sheba (H7614J) living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.10.1
- Queen
How it's translated
- the queen 23
- queen of 4
- and queen of 2
- to queen of 2
- queens 2
- with the queen 1
- and the queen 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 24
- 1 Kings 4
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Song of Solomon 2
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 10:4And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built,
- 1 Kings 10:10And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:13And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
- 2 Chronicles 9:1And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
- 2 Chronicles 9:3And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
- 2 Chronicles 9:9And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
Hebrew dictionary
מַלְכָּה malkah · Queen (of Sheba)
A queen of the country Sheba (H7614J) living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.10.1 Combined with she.va (שְׁבָא " of Sheba" H7614J) § queen
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.