mamlachut · kingdom

What it means

mamlachut (מַמְלָכוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “kingdom”.

The territory and the rule of a king.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A king's territory and rule, and the time he reigns.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• kingdom ×8
• reign ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×5
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1

• Joshua 13:12

  all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); Moses struck them and dispossessed them.

• Joshua 13:21

  and all the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck, him and the chiefs of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

• Joshua 13:27

  and in the valley: Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, as far as the end of the Sea of Chinnereth, beyond the Jordan to the east.

• Joshua 13:30

  And their territory was from Mahanaim: all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all Havvoth-jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

• Joshua 13:31

  and half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir, according to their families.

• 1 Samuel 15:28

  Samuel said to him, “YHWH has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your companion, who is better than you.

• 2 Samuel 16:3

  The king said, “And where is the son of your master?” Ziba said to the king, “Look, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.’”

• Jeremiah 26:1

  At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from YHWH, saying,

• Hosea 1:4

  And YHWH said to him: Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will call the house of Jehu to account for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.