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# מַלְכָּה

Biblical Aramaic

**queen** — used 2 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

queen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַלְכָּה: n.f. queen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. queen;—emph. מַלְכְּתָא Dn 5:10(×2).

### Jastrow 1903

מַלְכָּה: queen, king’s wife malkath Sheba [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** queen, king’s wife. B. Bath. 15ᵇ כל האומר מַלְכַּת שבא וכ׳ whoever says malkath Sheba (I Kings X, 1) means a woman is mistaken; … it means the kingdom (מַלְכֻת) of Sheba. Sabb. 119ᵃ שבת המ׳ the queen Sabbath; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.10/#tree)

מַלְכְּתָ֕א לָקֳבֵ֨ל מִלֵּ֤י מַלְכָּא֙ וְרַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי לְבֵ֥ית מִשְׁתְּיָ֖א עַלַּ֑ת עֲנָ֨ת מַלְכְּתָ֜א וַאֲמֶ֗רֶת מַלְכָּא֙ לְעָלְמִ֣ין חֱיִ֔י אַֽל־יְבַהֲלוּךְ֙ רַעְיוֹנָ֔ךְ וְזִיוָ֖יךְ אַל־יִשְׁתַּנּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the queen (to) before the.words of the.king and nobles his to the.house of the.feast she.went.in she.replied the queen and she.said O king forever live! not let them.alarm.you thought\[s\] your and brightness(es) your not let.them.be.changed

*JPS 1917:* Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house; the queen spoke and said: 'O king, live for ever! let not thy thoughts affright thee, nor let thy countenance be changed;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5b8_5bc_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5b8_5bc_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).