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# מַלְכוּ

Biblical Aramaic

**royalty** — used 57 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

royalty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַלְכוּ: n.f. royalty, reign, kingdom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. royalty, reign, kingdom;—abs. מ׳ Dn 2:39 +; cstr. מַלְכוּת Ezr 4:24 +; emph. -תָא Dn 2:37 +, -תָה 2:44; sf. -תִי 4:15 +, -תֵהּ 3:33 +, -תָךְ 4:23 +; pl. cstr. מַלְכְוָת 7:27; emph. -וָתָא 2:44; 7:23;— royalty, kingship, kingly authority: Dn 4:23, 28, 33; הֵיכַל מ׳ v 26, בֵּית מ׳ v 27, כָּרְסֵא מ׳ 5:20. organized (world-) kingdom: 2:39(×2), 40, 41, 42, 44; 7:23(×2), 24, 27; מ׳ אֲנָשָׁא 4:14, 22, 29; 5:21; of specif. kings 2:37; 5:18, 28; 6:1; of God 3:33; 7:27 (both מ׳ עָלַם), 2:44(×2); 3:33; 4:31; 6:27; 7:27; of Mess. 7:14(×2); of saints 7:18(×2), 22, 27. realm (territorial) 4:15, 33b; 5:7, 11, 16, 29; 6:2(×2), 4, 8, 27; Ezr 7:13, 28; meton. Dn 6:5 = administration of realm. reign, time of reigning Dn 5:26; 6:29(×2); Ezr 4:24; 6:15.

### Jastrow 1903

מַלְכוּ

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. מַלְכוּתָא

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 42 of its verses cited, 2 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 not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (18); kingdom (11); of (8).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.28/#tree)

פְּרֵ֑ס פְּרִיסַת֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לְמָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃

*Word for word:* peres it.has.been.broken.in.two kingdom your and it.has.been.given to Medes and Persians

*JPS 1917:* PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'

[Daniel 4:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.26/#tree)

לִקְצָ֥ת יַרְחִ֖ין תְּרֵֽי־עֲשַׂ֑ר עַל־הֵיכַ֧ל מַלְכוּתָ֛א דִּ֥י בָבֶ֖ל מְהַלֵּ֥ךְ הֲוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* to.\[the\] end of.months two.plus ten on the.palace of the.kingdom (diy).of Babylon walking.about he.was

*JPS 1917:* At the end of twelve months he was walking upon the royal palace of Babylon.

## 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_5d5_5bc.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_5d5_5bc/): 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).