מָלַךְ

to reign

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H4427 Strong's Hebrew

mâlak Transliteration

/maw-lak'/ Pronunciation

Usage in the Hebrew Bible 351 appearances

Definition — BDB

to be or become king or queen, reign - (Qal) to be or become king or queen, reign - (Hiphil) to make one king or queen, cause to reign - (Hophal) to be made king or queen - to counsel, advise - (Niphal) to consider

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Strong's H4427 — מלך (mâlak), "to reign". Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB, 1906). Lemma, https://lemma.gebible.app/w/H4427.

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Verb: An action or state-of-being word.

Qal: The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Hiphil: The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Niphal: Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Hophal: The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).

Perfect: A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Sequential Imperfect: An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Infinitive Construct: A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Imperfect: An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Imperative: A direct command (“write!”).
Sequential Perfect: A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
Participle Active: A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
Infinitive Absolute: An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Jussive: A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).

Absolute: The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.

3rd Person: The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
2nd Person: The one addressed (“you”).
1st Person: The speaker (“I / we”).

Masculine: Grammatically masculine.
Feminine: Grammatically feminine.
Common: Either gender — not distinguished for this form.

Singular: One.
Plural: More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).

48 distinct verses where H4427 appears in the Hiphil stem, across 12 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.

Judges 3 verses

1 Samuel 5 verses

2 Samuel 1 verse

2 Samuel 2:9 וַ/יַּמְלִכֵ֨/הוּ֙ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

1 Kings 6 verses

2 Kings 9 verses

1 Chronicles 6 verses

2 Chronicles 13 verses

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“to reign” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb מלך (mâlak). As a verb its force shifts by stem, across 4 stems (Qal, Hiphil, and more). The Hebrew Bible uses it across 284 verses — common. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in 2 Kings. First canonically at Genesis 36:31, it enters the text early. See the sense tree, 284-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

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Modern gloss

to reign

About this word

Strong's H4427 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

284: distinct verses; The word appears in 284 distinct verses.
22 / 39: OT books; The word appears in 22 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 36:31: first appearance; The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 36:31.
Micah 4:7: last appearance; The latest occurrence is in Micah 4:7.
#139: by frequency; Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 139 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 284 occurrences in the concordance →

Most concentrated in

2 Kings 73 verses 26%
2 Chronicles 57 verses 20%
1 Kings 51 verses 18%

By section of the Old Testament

Pentateuch 11 · 4%
Historical 243 · 86%
Wisdom 10 · 4%
Prophets 20 · 7%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 284 distinct verses.

Prophets (Nevi'im) 177 verses · 62%
Writings (Ketuvim) 96 verses · 34%
Torah (Pentateuch) 11 verses · 4%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.

King James Version: Reigned 115×, He reigned 38×, Reign 35×
American Standard Version: Reigned in his stead 51×, He reigned 47×, Reigned 43×
Berean Standard Bible: Reigned 75×, He reigned 54×, He became king 39×
unfoldingWord Literal Text: Reigned 102×, He reigned 81×, And 76×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H4427 across 350 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“Reigned” 115×
“He reigned” 38×
“Reign” 35×
“He began to reign” 34×
“King” 21×
“Began to reign” 14×
“Shall reign” 14×
“Reigneth” 10×
“Made him king” 7×
“Made” 5×
“Was he when he began to reign” 5×
“Make him king” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 45 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H4427 across 347 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“Reigned in his stead” 51×
“He reigned” 47×
“Reigned” 43×
“He began to reign” 34×
“Reign” 34×
“King” 16×
“Began to reign” 14×
“Reigneth” 8×
“Shall reign” 7×
“Him” 6×
“Was he when he began to reign” 5×
“Made” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 53 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H4427 across 340 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“Reigned” 75×
“He reigned” 54×
“He became king” 39×
“Became king” 29×
“King” 27×
“Reign” 22×
“Will reign” 9×
“Reigns” 8×
“Made him king” 6×
“Ruled” 3×
“Zedekiah’s reign” 3×
“Appointed” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 51 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H4427 across 463 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

“Reigned” 102×
“He reigned” 81×
“And” 76×
“Reign” 32×
“He became king” 19×
“King” 18×
“Reigns” 12×
“Will reign” 12×
“Made” 10×
“Reigning” 9×
“They made” 8×
“Make” 7×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 46 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Senses in the full BDB

Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hophal (the passive of Hiphil).

What do BDB’s symbols mean?

BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:

Symbol	Meaning
𝔊	the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX)
𝔙	the Vulgate (the Latin translation)
𝔖	the Syriac version (the Peshitta)
𝔗	the Targum (the Aramaic translation)
ψ	the Psalms
√	root (the underlying root or stem)
‖	parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel)
†	the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited

The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.

מלך I denom. be, or become king, or queen, reign

Qal

Pf. מ׳ Jos 13:10 +, etc.; Impf. יִמְלֹךְ (-לוֹךְ) Ex 15:18 +; וַיִּמְלֹךְ Gn 36:32 +; 2 ms. תִּמְלֹךְ Gn 37:8 +, (הֲתִֽמֲלֹךְ Je 22:15 Bear); Imv. מְלָךְ־, Ju 9:14; מָלְכָה Ju 9:8; מָלְכִי Ju 9:10, 12; Inf. abs. מָלֹךְ Gn 37:8 1 S 24:21; cstr. מְלֹךְ 1 K 2:15 +; sf. מָלְכוֹ 1 S 13:1 +; Pt. מֹלֵךְ Je 22:11 + 2 times; מֹלֶכֶת 2 K 11:3 = 2 Ch 22:12;—be (become) king, reign, mostly of Hebrew kings, 2 S 2:10 1 K 16:22 2 K 3:1; 9:13, but also gen. Pr 8:15; 30:22; of Can., Edom., Aramaic, Assyrian, Pers. kings, etc.: Ju 4:2 Gn 36:31 1 K 11:25 2 K 8:15; 19:37 Est 1:1 +; sq. בְּ loc. (usually city) Jos 13:10, 12 Ju 4:2 2 S 5:5 1 K 11:24; 14:21 + often; but also Gn 36:31, 32 1 Ch 1:43 בְּארץ, and even בְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר־תְּאַוֶּה נַפְשֶׁ֑ךָ 2 S 3:21; sq. עַל c. people or land 1 S 8:9, 11; 12:14; 13:1 1 K 15:1, 9; 16:23 + often; sq. בְּ loc. + עַל territ. (or pop.) 2 S 5:5 1 K 11:42; sq. תַּחַת (תַּחְתָּיו) 2 S 16:8 Gn 36:33f. = 1 Ch 1:44f., 1 K 14:20, 31 2 K 8:15; 13:24 Je 22:11 + often; †subj. God, sq. על ψ 47:9 Mi 4:7 Ez 20:33 1 S 8:7; sq. בְּ Is 24:23; abs. Ex 15:18 Is 52:7 ψ 93:1; 96:10 = 1 Ch 16:31, 97:1; 99:1; 146:10†; subj. future (Mess.) king Is 32:1 Je 23:5; †subj. a woman (= be queen) 2 K 11:3 = 2 Ch 22:12 (both sq. עַל), Est 2:4 sq. תַּחַת†; Imv. only in fable, king of trees, Ju 9:8, 10, 12, 14 all sq. על; בְּמָלְכוֹ especially = when he began to reign, became king 1 S 13:1 2 S 2:10 1 K 14:21 + often; Inf. also = reign: בְּשְׁנַת שְׁמֹנֶה לְמָלְכוֹ 2 K 24:12; 25:1, cf. v 27; 1 K 6:1 2 Ch 16:13; 17:7; 29:3; 34:3, 8, cf. עַד מְלֹךְ דָּוִד 1 Ch 4:31; עַד מְלֹךְ מַלְכוּת פָּרָס 2 Ch 36:20; began to reign and reigned מָלַךְ וַיִּמְלֹךְ 1 K 15:25; 16:29 2 K 3:1 +; often מָלַךְ alone with same meaning 1 K 16:23 2 K 13:1, 10; 14:23 +. e.g. Joshua 13:10

Hiphil

Pf. הִמְלִיךְ 1 S 15:35 + 2 times; הִמְלַ֫כְתָּ 1 K 3:7, etc.; Impf. וַיַּמְלֵךְ 2 K 23:34 + 4 times; וַיַּמְלִיכוּ Ju 9:6 + etc.; Inf. cstr. הַמְלִיךְ 1 K 12:1 + etc.; Pt. מַמְלִיךְ Ez 17:16;—make king, or queen, cause to reign, sq. acc. pers. Ju 9:16 1 S 11:15 1 K 1:43; 12:1; 16:21 2 K 10:5; 11:12 (anointing and coronation) = 2 Ch 23:11, 2 K 17:21 1 Ch 11:10; 12:32, 39 2 Ch 10:1; 11:22 Ez 17:16; sq. לִשׁלמֹה (לְ of dir. obj., as Aramaic) 1 Ch 29:22; sq. acc. cogn. 1 S 8:22 (+ לָהֶם), 12:1 (+ על), Is 7:6 (+ בְּתוֹךְ); sq. לְמֶלֶךְ Ju 9:6 1 S 15:11; sq. acc. pers. + בְּ loc. Je 37:1; + עַל Ju 9:18 1 S 15:35 1 K 12:20; 16:16 2 K 8:20 1 Ch 12:38; 28:4 (acc. om.), 23:1 2 Ch 1:9, 11; 21:8; 36:4, 10, cf. 2 S 2:9 (3 times עֲל־, 3 times אֶל־); + תַּחַת 1 K 3:7 2 K 14:21; 21:24; 23:30 (anointing), v 34; 24:17 2 Ch 1:8; 22:1; 26:1; 33:25; 36:1; Est 2:17 (= make queen at coronation); abs. Ho 8:4. e.g. 1 Samuel 15:35

Hophal

Pf. הָמְלַךְ עַל מַלְכוּת כַּשְׂדִּים Dn 9:1. e.g. Daniel 9:1

מלך II counsel, advise (loan-wd. from Aramaic ܡܠܰܟ, מְלַךְ

Niphal

(so NH) Impf. וַיִּמָּלֵךְ לִבִּי עָלַי i.e. I considered carefully, Ne 5:7. e.g. Nehemiah 5:7

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.

Word origin

I. vb. denom. be, or become king, or queen, reign;—

II. vb. counsel, advise (loan-wd. from Aramaic ܡܠܰܟ, מְלַךְ; cf. Assyrian malâku, DlHWB 412);—only

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Origin: a primitive root

Part of speech: Verb TWOT: 1199 , 1200

Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

*מַלָּךְ

(= מַה לָךְ) what is it to thee?; of no practical value. Sabb. 150ᵃ sq. חשבונות של מ׳ ושל מה בכך (Ms. M. מה לך, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) accounts of ‘what is it to thee?’ and of ‘what is in it?’, i.e. for no practical purpose. [Oth. opin., v. Ar.]

מָלַךְ

(b. h.) [to lead in council,] to preside; to officiate; to be ruler. B. Bath. 164ᵇ מ׳ שנה מונין לו שתים when he has been in office one year, they date (in documents) ‘the second year’. Meg. 11ᵃ (ref. to המֹלֵךְ, Esth. I, 1) מ׳ מעצמו started a dynasty with himself (had no claims of succession). Ib. מָלְכוּ בכיפה, v. כִּיפָּה. Zeb. 118ᵇ עשרה שנה שמ׳ וכ׳ ten years during which Samuel ruled alone, ושנה שמ׳ שאול וכ׳ and one year during which Saul and Samuel ruled conjointly; Tem. 15ᵃ; a. fr. e.g. Esther 1:1
- [to be led,]
- 1. to take council, to ask advice or permission. Ber. 3ᵇ נִמְלָכִין בסנהדרין they ask the Sanhedrin for their confirmation. Ib. 4ᵃ כל מה … אני נ׳ במפיבשת וכ׳ in whatever I undertake, I consult the opinion of M., my teacher. Ib. 29ᵇ וכשאתה … הִמָּלֵךְ בקונך וצא and when thou art about to go on a journey, take council of thy Maker (pray) and go out. B. Mets. 14ᵃ צריך לִימָּלֵךְ the scribe must ask for authorization (to insert in the contract); a. fr.
- 2. [to take council with one’s self,] to reconsider, change one’s mind. Gitt. III, 1. Dem. III, 2 הלוקח … ונ׳ להחזיר if one buys vegetables …. and then decides to return (the goods). Ib. 3 נטלן לאוכלן ונ׳ להצניע if he took them up to eat them and changed his mind (deciding) to keep them; a. fr.
- to appoint or elect for rulership, to acknowledge the authority of. Snh. 64ᵃ שהִמְלִיכוּהוּ עליהם, v. מוֹלֶךְ. Y. Ned. IX, beg. 41ᵇ (ref. to Ps. LXXXI, 10) זר שבקרבך אל תַּמְלִיכֵהוּ עליך allow not the tyrant within thee (the evil inclination) to rule over thee. Ab. Zar. 18ᵃ אומה זו מן השמים הִמְלִיכוּהָ this (Roman) nation has been given the rulership by divine decree. R. Hash. 16ᵃ אמרו לפני … מלכיות שתַּמְלִיכוּנִי עליכם recite before me verses of homage (v. מַלְכוּת), in order that you may declare me your ruler; a. fr. e.g. Psalms 81:10

מְלַךְ

1. to rule. Targ. Gen. XXXVII, 8; a. fr.—Part. מָלִיךְ. Targ. Jer. XXXIII, 21 (ed. Wil. מְלִיךְ, corr. acc.); a. fr.—Ab. Zar. 10ᵃ בעינא דיִמְלַךְ וכ׳ I desire that my son Severus be king after me; ib. דיִמְלוֹךְ.—Ber. 64ᵃ מ׳ רבה Rabbah officiated (as teacher and judge); a. fr.
2. (mostly מליך) to decide. Targ. Is. XIV, 27. Ib. XXIII, 8 (ed. Ven. מַלִּיךְ). Ib. 9 מִילְכָהּ ed. Lag. (some ed. מלכא, read: מִלְכָהּ); a. fr.—Part. pass. מְלִיךְ. Ib. XIV, 26; a. e.
3. to advise. Targ. II Sam. XVII, 7. Targ. I Kings I, 12; a. fr.
- 1. to advise. Targ. Job XXVI, 3.
- 2. to decide, v. supra.
- 1. = preced. = preced. Hif. Targ. I Kings III, 7; a. fr.
- 2. to counsel, persuade. Targ. Josh. XV, 18. Targ. Y. Deut. XXX, 6; a. e.—[Targ. Prov. VIII, 15 מַמְלְכִין ed. Lag. rule (oth. ed. מלכין).]
- , אִמְּ׳ = preced. Nif.—Targ. Is. XXXII, 7; a. fr.—B. Bath. 4ᵃ בתר דעבדין מִתְמַלְּכִין do people ask for advice (or permission) after they have acted? Ber. 27ᵇ אִימְּלִיךְ וכ׳ consult my family. Ib. אזיל ואִמְּ׳ וכ׳ he went and consulted his wife. Ned. 54ᵃ כל מילתא דצריך שליחא לאִמְּלוּכֵי וכ׳ any change of order for which the messenger has to ask special authorization, is heterogeneous (to the object of the original commission); כל מילתא דמִימְּלִיךְ שליח עלה וכ׳ a change for which the messenger asks for instructions is homogeneous. Sot. 43ᵇ אי אימ׳ עלה if he reconsiders his original disposal; a. fr.

מֶלֶךְ

preced.) leader in council, chief, king. Ber. 3ᵇ אדוננו המ׳ our lord the king! Tosef. Snh. VIII, 5, a. fr. מ׳ מלכי המלכים the Most Supreme King (the Lord). Ib. IX, 8 אפי׳ מ׳ של מלכים even a king of kings (great sovereign). Snh. 38ᵃ, a. fr. מ׳ בו"ד (v. בָּשָׂר) a human chief. Ab. Zar. 10ᵃ אין מושיבין מ׳ בן מ׳ they (the Romans) do not allow the son of a king to succeed his father. Kerith. 5ᵇ מ׳ ראשון a first king, starter of a dynasty. Shebu. 6ᵇ מַלְכֹּו של זה this hyparch’s chief. Num. R. s. 18 משה מ׳ וכ׳ Moses has made himself the chief, and Aaron is high priest &c.; a. v. fr.—Pl. מְלָכִים. Hor. 12ᵃ כיצד מושחין את המ׳ וכ׳ how are kings anointed? By drawing with the oil the outlines of a crown; Ker. 5ᵇ. Ib. מַלְכֵי בית דוד the kings of the house of David (southern kingdom); מ׳ ישראל the kings of the northern kingdom; a. v. fr.—בַּת מְ׳ Princess, name of a demon afflicting the eye, also a certain disorder of the eye, v. בַּת I. Sabb. 109ᵃ (Var. בת חורין, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).—Pl. בנות מֶלֶךְ. Tosef. B. Kam. IX, 27 יצאו בנות מ׳ the ‘princesses’ (humors of the eye) escaped (in consequence of a blow).

מֶלֶךְ ²

Targ. Ps. XXIV, 7; 9. Targ. Ex. I, 8; a. fr.—Snh. 110ᵃ איהו הוה מ׳ he (Moses) himself is chief. Y. Yeb. XVI, 15ᶜ, v. אָרְסְקִינָס. Y. Ter. VIII, 46ᵇ bot. אתעביד מ׳ he (Dioclet) became king; a. fr.—Pl. מַלְכֵין, מַלְכַיָּא, מַלְכֵי. Targ. Gen. XVII, 6. Ib. XIV, 5. Targ. Prov. VIII, 15; a. fr.—Gitt. 62ᵃ שלמא עלייכו מ׳ (to scholars) peace be with you, chiefs!—Shebu. 6ᵇ תרי מ׳ וכ׳ two kings and two viceroys (hyparchs); a. fr.

מֵלַךְ

(preced. wds.) counsel, advice. Targ. Is. III, 3. Targ. Y. Deut. VIII, 18 (O. עצה; h. text כֹּחַ); a. fr.—Pl. מִלְכִין, מִלְכַיָּא, מִי׳. Targ. Is. XXV, 1. Targ. Job XII, 17 (not מַ׳). Targ. Hos. X, 6; a. e.

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Forms in the corpus

The 119 distinct written forms H4427 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
מָלַ֖ךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Chronicles 3:4	46
וַ/יִּמְלֹ֛ךְ	Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Chronicles 29:28	41
וַ/יִּמְלֹ֥ךְ	Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Chronicles 18:14	13
בְ/מָלְכ֔/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	2 Chronicles 21:20	12
בְּ/מָלְכ֔/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	1 Kings 22:42	11
וַ/יִּמְלֹ֣ךְ	Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	Genesis 36:32	11
מָ֠לַךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 15:33	10
מָלַ֥ךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 1:13	10
מָלַ֣ךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 14:20	9
וַ/יִּמְלֹ֖ךְ	Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 11:25	8
יִמְלֹ֣ךְ	Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 1:13	7
מָלַ֛ךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	2 Kings 8:16	7
מָלַךְ֙	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Chronicles 29:27	6
בְ/מָלְכ֑/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	2 Chronicles 27:8	5
בְּ/מָלְכ֑/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	1 Samuel 13:1	5
לְ/הַמְלִ֥יךְ	Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct	1 Chronicles 12:31	5
מָלַ֤ךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 2:11	5
וַ/יַּמְלִ֥יכוּ	Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural	1 Kings 12:20	4
יִמְלֹ֖ךְ	Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	Exodus 15:18	4
לְ/מָלְכ֗/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	2 Chronicles 17:7	4
מְלָךְ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	Genesis 36:31	3
וַ/יִּמְלֹ֤ךְ	Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	Genesis 36:39	3
וַ/יִּמְלֹ֨ךְ	Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	Genesis 36:35	3
לְ/מָלְכ֔/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	Daniel 9:2	3
לְ/מָלְכֽ/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	2 Chronicles 16:13	3
מָלָ֑ךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 1:18	3
בְּ/מָלְכ֜/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	1 Kings 14:21	2
הִמְלִ֥יךְ	Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 1:43	2
הַ/מֹּלֵךְ֙	Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Esther 1:1	2
וַ/יִּ֨מְלָךְ	Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Chronicles 3:4	2
וַ/יַּמְלִ֖יכוּ	Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural	2 Chronicles 23:11	2
וַ/יַּמְלִ֣כוּ	Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural	1 Kings 16:16	2
וַ/יַּמְלִ֥כוּ	Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural	2 Kings 8:20	2
וַ/יַּמְלִ֧יכוּ	Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural	2 Chronicles 33:25	2
וּ/מָ֣לַכְתָּ֔	Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 11:37	2
לִ/מְלֹ֑ךְ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	Ecclesiastes 4:14	2
מִ/מְּלֹ֖ךְ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	1 Samuel 16:1	2
מָ֭לָךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	Psalms 97:1	2
מָלְכִ֥י	Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Feminine, Singular	Judges 9:10	2
מָלַ֔ךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 2:11	2
מָלַ֗ךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	2 Chronicles 29:1	2
מָלָֽךְ	Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Chronicles 16:31	2
מֹלֶ֥כֶת	Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Feminine, Singular, Absolute	2 Chronicles 22:12	2
אֶמְל֥וֹךְ	Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular	Ezekiel 20:33	1
אֶמְלֹ֑ךְ	Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular	1 Kings 1:5	1
ב/מלך	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	2 Kings 23:33	1
בְ/מָלְכ֜/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	1 Kings 16:11	1
בְּ/מָלְכ/וֹ֙	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	2 Samuel 2:10	1
בְּ/מָלְכ֗/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	2 Chronicles 20:31	1
בְּ/מָלְכֽ/וֹ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct	2 Kings 11:21	1
הֲ/מָלֹ֤ךְ	Verb, Qal, Infinitive Absolute	Genesis 37:8	1
הֲ/תִֽמְלֹ֔ךְ	Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular	Jeremiah 22:15	1
הִמְלִ֛יךְ	Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	Jeremiah 37:1	1
הִמְלִיכוּ֙	Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural	Hosea 8:4	1
הִמְלַ֣כְתָּ	Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular	1 Kings 3:7	1
הִמְלַ֤כְתִּי	Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular	1 Samuel 15:11	1
הִמְלַכְתִּ֖י/ךָ	Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular	2 Chronicles 1:11	1
הִמְלַכְתַּ֔/נִי	Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular	2 Chronicles 1:9	1
הַ/מַּמְלִ֣יךְ	Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute	Ezekiel 17:16	1
הָמְלַ֔ךְ	Verb, Hophal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular	Daniel 9:1	1

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 264 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 284 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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מָלַךְ

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Where this word appears

Judges 3 verses

1 Samuel 5 verses

2 Samuel 1 verse

1 Kings 6 verses

2 Kings 9 verses

1 Chronicles 6 verses

2 Chronicles 13 verses

Esther 1 verse

Isaiah 1 verse

Jeremiah 1 verse

Ezekiel 1 verse

Hosea 1 verse

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