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מַמְלָכָה

mamlacha · kingdom

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4467 · appears 117 times in the Bible

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What it means

mamlacha (מַמְלָכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “kingdom”.

The territory and the power of a king; reign.

How to say it

mam·la·cha

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 land ruled by a king.
  2. The king's power, and the throne from which he rules.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Kingdom: the power of a king and the territory he governs. BDB: dominion, that is, abstractly the estate (rule), or concretely the country. It comes from מָלַךְ, “to reign”. Almost a synonym is מַלְכוּת, “kingdom, reign” (H4438).

How we translate it

“Kingdom” 63 times, “kingdoms” 48, “royal” 3, “reign” 2, “kingship” 1. Another word of the same root, מְלוּכָה, is also translated “kingdom”.

How it is translated

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

  • kingdom ×63
  • kingdoms ×48
  • royal ×3
  • reign ×2
  • kingship ×1

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 10:10

    And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

  • Genesis 20:9

    Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Deeds that ought not to be done you have done to me.”

  • Exodus 19:6

    and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel.”

  • Numbers 32:33

    Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within their borders, the cities of the land all around.

  • Deuteronomy 3:4

    We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town that we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

  • Deuteronomy 3:10

    all the cities of the plateau, all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

  • Deuteronomy 3:13

    The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (As for all that Bashan, it is called a land of Rephaim.

  • Deuteronomy 3:21

    And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes are the ones that have seen all that YHWH your Elohim has done to these two kings. So YHWH will do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing.

  • Deuteronomy 17:18

    And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this instruction in a book, from the one that is before the priests, the Levites.

  • Deuteronomy 17:20

    so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and so that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, in order that he may prolong his days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

  • Deuteronomy 28:25

    YHWH will make you defeated before your enemies; you will go out against them by one way and flee before them by seven ways; and you will be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Joshua 10:2

    they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the cities of the kingdom, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty men.

  • Joshua 11:10

    Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor, and its king he struck with the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all these kingdoms.

  • 1 Samuel 10:18

    And he said to the sons of Israel, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘I brought up Israel from Egypt and delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’

  • 1 Samuel 13:13

    Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of YHWH your Elohim that he commanded you; for now YHWH would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

  • 1 Samuel 13:14

    But now your kingdom will not stand firm. YHWH has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and YHWH has commanded him to be leader over his people, because you have not kept what YHWH commanded you.”

  • 1 Samuel 24:20

    Now, look, I know that you will surely be king, and the kingdom of Israel will stand firm in your hand.

  • 1 Samuel 27:5

    David said to Achish, “If please I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the towns of the open country, and I will stay there. For why should your servant stay in the royal city with you?”

  • 1 Samuel 28:17

    YHWH has done as he spoke by my hand: YHWH has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your companion, to David.

  • 2 Samuel 3:10

    to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”

  • 2 Samuel 3:28

    Afterward David heard of it and said, “I and my kingdom are innocent before YHWH forever of the blood of Abner son of Ner.

  • 2 Samuel 5:12

    David knew that YHWH had established him as king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

  • 2 Samuel 7:12

    When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who will come out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

  • 2 Samuel 7:13

    He will build a house for my name, and I will make firm the throne of his kingdom forever.

  • 2 Samuel 7:16

    And your house and your kingdom will be firm forever before you; your throne will be established forever.’”

  • 1 Kings 2:46

    Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him, and he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

  • 1 Kings 4:21

    And Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the river Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

  • 1 Kings 9:5

    then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I spoke concerning David your father, saying, ‘There shall not be cut off for you a man from the throne of Israel.’

  • 1 Kings 10:20

    And twelve lions stood there on the six steps, on this side and on that; nothing like it was made in any kingdom.

  • 1 Kings 11:11

    And YHWH said to Solomon, “Because this has been with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and give it to your servant.

  • 1 Kings 11:13

    Only, I will not tear all the kingdom; one tribe I will give to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

  • 1 Kings 11:31

    And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, ‘Look, I am tearing the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give to you the ten tribes;

  • 1 Kings 11:34

    Yet I will not take all the kingdom from his hand, but I will make him chief all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

  • 1 Kings 12:26

    Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

  • 1 Kings 14:8

    and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart, to do only what is right in my eyes,

  • 1 Kings 18:10

    As YHWH your Elohim lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you; and when they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made the kingdom and the nation swear that they had not found you.

  • 2 Kings 11:1

    Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, and she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring.

  • 2 Kings 14:5

    And it happened, as soon as the kingdom was firm in his hand, that he struck his servants who had struck the king his father.

  • 2 Kings 15:19

    Pul king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that his hands might be with him to strengthen the kingdom in his hand.

  • 2 Kings 19:15

    Hezekiah prayed before YHWH and said, “YHWH, Elohim of Israel, who sit on the cherubim, you are the Elohim, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you made the heavens and the earth.

And 77 more times.