melucha · kingdom, kingship

What it means

melucha (מְלוּכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “kingdom, kingship”.

The power and the office of the 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. The power of one who reigns, and the territory over which he exercises it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• kingdom ×15
• royal ×5
• kingship ×3
• royalty ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×5
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×7
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×1
• Obadiah×1

• 1 Samuel 10:16

  And Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.” But the matter of the kingship, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him.

• 1 Samuel 10:25

  Then Samuel told the people the right of the kingship, and he wrote it in the scroll and laid it before YHWH. And Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his house.

• 1 Samuel 11:14

  Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there.”

• 1 Samuel 14:47

  Saul took the kingdom over Israel and fought all around against all his enemies: against Moab, against the sons of Ammon, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines; and wherever he turned, he condemned them.

• 1 Samuel 18:8

  Saul was greatly incensed, and this word was evil in his eyes; and he said, “They have given to David myriads, and to me they have given the thousands; and now for him there is only the kingdom!”

• 2 Samuel 12:26

  Joab fought against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and took the city of the kingdom.

• 2 Samuel 16:8

  YHWH has brought back on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and YHWH has given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son. And look, you are in your evil, for a man of blood you are!”

• 1 Kings 1:46

  Moreover, Solomon has sat on the throne of the kingdom.

• 1 Kings 2:15

  And he said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that on me all Israel had set their faces for me to reign; but the kingdom turned around and became my brother’s, for it was his from YHWH.

• 1 Kings 2:22

  And King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom — for he is my brother, older than I — for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

• 1 Kings 11:35

  but I will take the kingdom from the hand of his son and give it to you, the ten tribes.

• 1 Kings 12:21

  Rehoboam came to Jerusalem and assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring back the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

• 1 Kings 21:7

  Jezebel his wife said to him, “You now exercise the kingship over Israel! Get up, eat bread, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

• 2 Kings 25:25

  And it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, of the royal offspring, came, and ten men with him, and they struck Gedaliah, and he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

• 1 Chronicles 10:14

  and he did not consult YHWH; and he put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

• Psalms 22:28

  For the kingdom belongs to YHWH, and he rules over the nations.

• Isaiah 34:12

  Its nobles, and there is no kingdom there that they will proclaim, and all its princes will be nothing.

• Isaiah 62:3

  And you will be a crown of beauty in the hand of YHWH, and a royal turban in the palm of your Elohim.

• Jeremiah 41:1

  And it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama came, of the royal offspring, and the great men of the king, and ten men with him, to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah; and they ate bread together there at Mizpah.

• Ezekiel 16:13

  And you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth; fine flour and honey and oil you ate; and you became beautiful exceedingly, and you prospered to royalty.

• Ezekiel 17:13

  And he took one of the royal offspring and made a covenant with him, and brought him into an imprecation; and the mighty of the land he took away,

• Daniel 1:3

  And the king told Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring some of the sons of Israel, both of the royal offspring and of the nobles,

• Obadiah 1:21

  And deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom will be YHWH’s.

And 1 more times.