מַלְכִּיָּהוּ
Malchijah
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4441 appears in the Book of Nehemiah — 7 distinct verses. 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.
Nehemiah
- Nehemiah 3:11 מַלְכִּיָּ֣ה n Proper Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
- Nehemiah 3:14 מַלְכִּיָּ֣ה n Proper The dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth Haccherem; he built it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it.
- Nehemiah 3:31 מַלְכִּיָּה֙ n Proper After him repaired Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, over against the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.
- Nehemiah 8:4 וּ/מַלְכִּיָּ֛ה conj + n Proper Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, [and] Meshullam.
- Nehemiah 10:3 מַלְכִּיָּֽה n Proper Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
- Nehemiah 11:12 מַלְכִּיָּֽה n Proper and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
- Nehemiah 12:42 וּ/מַלְכִּיָּ֖ה conj + n Proper and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
About this entry
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.
At its core, מלכיה (Malkîyâh) means “Malchijah.” Scripture first uses it in 1 Chronicles 6:40. It appears 15 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Nehemiah (47%), then 1 Chronicles and Jeremiah. Dig into 15-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4441 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 →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 7 verses 47%
- 1 Chronicles 3 verses 20%
- Jeremiah 3 verses 20%
By section of the Old Testament
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 15 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 12 verses · 80%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 20%
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).
- King James Version: Malchiah 9×, Malchijah 6×
- American Standard Version: Malchijah 16×
- Berean Standard Bible: Malchijah 15×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Malkijah 14×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4441 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4441 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4441 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4441 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
13 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
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 13 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.
- 1. father of Pashhur Je 21:1; 38:1, cf. 1 Ch 9:12 (priest), Ne 11:12. e.g. Jeremiah 21:1
- 2. a prince Je 38:6. e.g. Jeremiah 38:6
- 3. priests:
- a. I Ch 24:9. e.g. 1 Chronicles 24:9
- b. Ne 12:42. e.g. Nehemiah 12:42
- 4. one of the sealed Ne 10:4; perhaps also 8:4. e.g. Nehemiah 10:4
- 5. a Levite 1 Ch 6:25. e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:25
- 6. various men:
- a. Ezr 10:25a. e.g. Ezra 10:25
- b. Ezr 10:25b. e.g. Ezra 10:25
- c. Ezr 10:31 = Ne 3:11. e.g. Ezra 10:31
- d. Ne 3:14. e.g. Nehemiah 3:14
- e. Ne 3:31. e.g. Nehemiah 3:31
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
(only Je 38:6), מַלְכִּיָּה n.pr.m. (my king is Yah;) cf. GrayProp. N. 119 f., 146 al.;—𝔊 Μελχ(ε)ια(ς).—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מלך (melek) (H4428) — king.
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.
מַלְכִּיָּא
- (b. h.) pr. n. m., רב מ׳ Rab Malkia, an Amora. Sabb. 46ᵃ; a. e., v. next w.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H4441 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַלְכִּיָּֽה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:40 | 3 |
| וּ/מַלְכִּיָּ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:25 | 2 |
| מַלְכִּיָּ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 9:12 | 2 |
| מַלְכִּיָּ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 3:11 | 2 |
| וּ/מַלְכִּיָּ֛ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 8:4 | 1 |
| וּ/מַלְכִּיָּה֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:25 | 1 |
| לְ/מַלְכִּיָּה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:9 | 1 |
| מַלְכִּיָּ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 21:1 | 1 |
| מַלְכִּיָּ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:31 | 1 |
| מַלְכִּיָּ֣הוּ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 38:6 | 1 |
| מַלְכִּיָּה֙ | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 3:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4441, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- מלך Melek H4429 Melech
- מלכיאל Malkîyʼêl H4439 Malchiel
- מלכיצדק Malkîy-Tsedeq H4442 Melchizedek
- מלכירם Malkîyrâm H4443 Malchiram
- מלכישוע Malkîyshûwaʻ H4444 Malchishua
- מלכם Malkâm H4445 Milcom
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 6 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 15 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
