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# מִלְכָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4435

**Milcah** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Milcah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4435/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִלְכָּה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4435/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. 𝔊 Μελχα ( = מַלְכָּה? NöZMG xlii. 1888, 484 comp. Ph. n. pr. deæ מלכת; cf. GrayProp. N. 116);— wife of Nahor Gn 11:29(×2), 22:20, 23; 24:15, 24, 47 (all J). daughter of Zelophehad (of Manasseh), Nu 26:33; 27:1; 36:11 Jos 17:3 (all P).—Perhaps orig. town-name, Grayl.c.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Milcah (7); of Milcah (3); \[was\] Milcah (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 22:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.23/#tree)

וּבְתוּאֵ֖ל יָלַ֣ד אֶת־רִבְקָ֑ה שְׁמֹנָ֥ה אֵ֙לֶּה֙ יָלְדָ֣ה מִלְכָּ֔ה לְנָח֖וֹר אֲחִ֥י אַבְרָהָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and Bethuel he.fathered (et) Rebekah eight.\[sons\] these she.bore Milcah to Nahor the.brother of.Abraham

*JPS 1917:* And Bethuel begot Rebekah; these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

[Genesis 24:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.24/#tree)

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו בַּת־בְּתוּאֵ֖ל אָנֹ֑כִי בֶּן־מִלְכָּ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָלְדָ֖ה לְנָחֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and she.said to him \[am\].the.daughter of.Bethuel I the.son of.Milcah whom she.bore to Nahor

*JPS 1917:* And she said unto him: 'I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore unto Nahor.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4435/): 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).