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# מַלְכָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4436

**queen** — used 35 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

queen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4436/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַלְכָּה: n.f. queen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4436/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. queen:—abs. מ׳ Est 1:9 + 24 times Est.; cstr. מַלְכַּת 1 K 10:1 + 7 times; pl. מְלָכוֹת Ct 6:8, 9;—queen of Sheba 1 K 10:1, 4, 10, 13 = 2 Ch 9:1, 3, 9, 12; of Persia, Vashti Est 1:9 + 7 times Est 1; Esther Est 2:22 + 16 times Est 4–9 (in Esther mostly appos. of n.pr.; it precedes n.pr. Est 1:12, 15; follows n.pr. Est 1:9 + 17 times); of Isr. queens only pl. and only Ct 6:8, 9 (both ‖ פִּילַגְשִׁים). Cf. גְּבִירָה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: queen (23); the queen (10); queens (2).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.6.8/#tree)

שִׁשִּׁ֥ים הֵ֙מָּה֙ מְּלָכ֔וֹת וּשְׁמֹנִ֖ים פִּֽילַגְשִׁ֑ים וַעֲלָמ֖וֹת אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].sixty they queens and eighty concubines and young.women there.\[is\].not number

*JPS 1917:* There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number.

[2 Chronicles 9:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.9.3/#tree)

וַתֵּ֙רֶא֙ מַֽלְכַּת־שְׁבָ֔א אֵ֖ת חָכְמַ֣ת שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה וְהַבַּ֖יִת אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and she.saw the.queen of.Sheba (et) the.wisdom of.Solomon and the house which he.had.built

*JPS 1917:* And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4436.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4436/): 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).