Kingdom
מַמְלָכָהStrong’s H4467mamlakhah (mam-la-khah)
Appears in 113 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mamlakhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “kingdoms of”, “kingdom” and “kingdoms”. It appears in 113 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”
Meaning
- Kingdom, dominion, reign, sovereigntykingdom, realm · sovereignty, dominion · reign
How it's translated
- kingdoms of 24
- the kingdom 18
- kingdoms 14
- kingdom of 8
- kingdom his 7
- the kingdoms 6
- royalty 5
- a kingdom 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 19
- Jeremiah 17
- Isaiah 13
- 1 Kings 11
- Deuteronomy 7
- 1 Samuel 6
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 20:9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
- Exodus 19:6And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
- Numbers 32:33And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
- Deuteronomy 3:4And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:10All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:13And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
All 113 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מַמְלָכָה mamlakhah · kingdom
1) kingdom, dominion, reign, sovereignty 1a) kingdom, realm 1b) sovereignty, dominion 1c) reign
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “kingdom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KING'DOM, noun
[king and dom, jurisdiction.]
- The territory or country subject to a king; an undivided territory under the dominion of a king or monarch.
- The inhabitants or population subject to a king.
- In natural history, a division; as the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.
- A region; a tract; the place where any thing prevails and holds sway; as the watery kingdom
All definitions
- In Scripture, the government or universal dominion of God. 1 Chronicles 29:11Psalms 145:11
- The power of supreme administration. 1 Samuel 18:8
- A princely nation or state.“Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests” Exodus 19:6
- Heaven. Matthew 26:29
- State of glory in heaven. Matthew 5:3
- The reign of the Messiah.
- Government; rule; supreme administration.
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.