Queen
מְלֶ֫כֶתStrong’s H4446melekhet (me-le-khet)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Melekhet is the Hebrew word usually translated “queen of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.”
Meaning
- Queen
How it's translated
- to queen of 4
- for queen of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 44:17But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
- Jeremiah 44:18But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
- Jeremiah 44:19And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
- Jeremiah 44:25Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
Hebrew dictionary
מְלֶ֫כֶת melekhet · queen
queen
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.