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# מַמְלָכוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4468

**kingdom** — used 9 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

kingdom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4468/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַמְלָכוּת: n.f. kingdom, dominion, reign [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4468/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. kingdom, dominion, reign (on form cf. We 1 S 15:28 Drad loc. id.);—cstr. מַמְלְכוּת Jos 13:12 + 8 times; kingdom of Og Jos 13:12, 30, 31; of Sihon v 21, 27. dominion, royal power c. קָרַע מֵעַל (subj. י׳) 1 S 15:28; c. הֵשִׁיב לְ (hum. subj.) 2 S 16:3; c. הִשְׁבִּית Ho 1:4. reign בְּרֵאשִׁית מַמ׳ Je 26:1 (cf. מַמְלָכָה 3, מַלְכוּת 2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the kingdom (4); of the kingdom (2); the kingship (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 26:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.26.1/#tree)

בְּרֵאשִׁ֗ית מַמְלְכ֛וּת יְהוֹיָקִ֥ים בֶּן־יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֑ה הָיָה֙ הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה מֵאֵ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* in the.beginning of.the.kingship of.Jehoiakim the.son of.Josiah the.king of.Judah it.came the word (the) this from with Yahweh (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from the LORD, saying:

[Joshua 13:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.30/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י גְבוּלָ֗ם מִמַּחֲנַ֨יִם כָּֽל־הַבָּשָׁ֜ן כָּֽל־מַמְלְכ֣וּת ׀ ע֣וֹג מֶֽלֶךְ־הַבָּשָׁ֗ן וְכָל־חַוֺּ֥ת יָאִ֛יר אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּבָּשָׁ֖ן שִׁשִּׁ֥ים עִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and it.was territory their from Mahanaim all (the) Bashan all the.kingdom of.Og the.king of.(the) Bashan and all the.villages of.Jair which \[are\].in (the) Bashan sixty citi\[es\]

*JPS 1917:* And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4468.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4468/): 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).