מַמְלָכָה
kingdom
also: dominion, reign, sovereignty fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
51 distinct verses where H4467 appears in the Construct state, across 16 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.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 10:10 מַמְלַכְתּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Genesis 20:9 מַמְלַכְתִּ֖/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"
Exodus 1 verse
Numbers 1 verse
Deuteronomy 6 verses
- Deuteronomy 3:4 מַמְלֶ֥כֶת n c fs cs We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:10 מַמְלֶ֥כֶת n c fs cs all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:13 מַמְלֶ֣כֶת n c fs cs and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
- Deuteronomy 17:18 מַמְלַכְתּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites:
- Deuteronomy 17:20 מַמְלַכְתּ֛/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 מַמְלְכ֥וֹת n c fp cs Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
1 Samuel 3 verses
- 1 Samuel 13:13 מַֽמְלַכְתְּ/ךָ֛ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
- 1 Samuel 13:14 מַמְלַכְתְּ/ךָ֣ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.
- 1 Samuel 24:20 מַמְלֶ֖כֶת n c fs cs Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
2 Samuel 5 verses
- 2 Samuel 3:28 וּ/מַמְלַכְתִּ֛/י conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
- 2 Samuel 5:12 מַמְלַכְתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
- 2 Samuel 7:12 מַמְלַכְתּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 2 Samuel 7:13 מַמְלַכְתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
- 2 Samuel 7:16 וּ/מַֽמְלַכְתְּ/ךָ֛ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 19:15 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
- 2 Kings 19:19 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save you us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you Yahweh are God alone.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 7 verses
- 2 Chronicles 12:8 מַמְלְכ֥וֹת n c fp cs Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
- 2 Chronicles 13:8 מַמְלֶ֣כֶת n c fs cs Now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and there are with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods.
- 2 Chronicles 17:10 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
- 2 Chronicles 20:6 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs and he said, Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren't you God in heaven? and aren't you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
- 2 Chronicles 20:29 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 21:4 מַמְלֶ֤כַת n c fs cs Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and various also of the princes of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 36:23 מַמְלְכ֤וֹת n c fp cs Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.
Ezra 1 verse
Psalms 2 verses
Isaiah 6 verses
- Isaiah 9:7 מַמְלַכְתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this.
- Isaiah 10:10 לְ/מַמְלְכֹ֖ת prep + n c fp cs As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
- Isaiah 13:4 מַמְלְכ֤וֹת n c fp cs The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Hosts is mustering the host for the battle.
- Isaiah 23:17 מַמְלְכ֥וֹת n c fp cs It shall happen after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.
- Isaiah 37:16 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, who sits [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
- Isaiah 37:20 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.
Jeremiah 11 verses
- Jeremiah 1:15 מַמְלְכ֥וֹת n c fp cs For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set everyone his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
- Jeremiah 15:4 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 24:9 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
- Jeremiah 25:26 הַ/מַּמְלְכ֣וֹת ptcl def.art + n c fp cs and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
- Jeremiah 27:1 מַמְלֶ֛כֶת n c fs cs In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
- Jeremiah 28:1 מַמְלֶ֨כֶת֙ n c fs cs It happened the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
- Jeremiah 29:18 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;
- Jeremiah 34:1 מַמְלְכ֣וֹת n c fp cs The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:
- Jeremiah 34:17 מַמְלְכ֥וֹת n c fp cs Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Jeremiah 49:28 וּֽ/לְ/מַמְלְכ֣וֹת conj + prep + n c fp cs Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
- Jeremiah 51:27 מַמְלְכ֥וֹת n c fp cs Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.
Micah 1 verse
Haggai 1 verse
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.
ממלכה (mamlâkâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “kingdom.” Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “dominion”, “reign”, and “sovereignty”. It turns up in 113 verses across 23 books, a common footprint. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 10:10. It clusters with מלך, מלוכה and מלך under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4467 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 →
- 113
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 113 distinct verses.
- 23 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 23 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #372
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 372 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 113 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 19 verses 17%
- Jeremiah 17 verses 15%
- Isaiah 13 verses 12%
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 113 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 71 verses · 63%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 31 verses · 27%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 11 verses · 10%
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: Kingdom 41×, Kingdoms 19×, All the kingdoms 13×
- American Standard Version: Kingdom 37×, Kingdoms 19×, All the kingdoms 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Kingdom 46×, Kingdoms 41×, Royal 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kingdom 52×, Kingdoms 21×, Kingdoms of 20×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4467 across 116 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 27 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 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4467 across 116 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 31 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 H4467 across 117 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear 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 H4467 across 113 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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
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 3 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. kingdom, realm, chiefly non-Isr.: Gn 10:10 (J), 20:9 (E), Nu 32:33(×2) (P), Dt 3:4, 10, 13, 21; 28:25 Jos 11:10 (D), 1 S 10:18 1 K 5:1; 10:20; 18:10(×2) (both ‖ גּוֹי), Is 10:10 1 Ch 16:20 = ψ 105:13 (‖ עַם and גּוֹי), ψ 135:11 Is 14:16; 19:2(×2), 23:11 2 Ch 9:19; 14:4; 29:21; 32:15 (‖ גּוֹי), Ne 9:22 (‖ עַם), ψ 46:7 (‖ גוֹי), 79:6 (‖ id.), 102:23 (‖ עַם), Is 60:12 (‖ גּוֹי), so Je 1:10; 18:7, 9; 27:8; 28:8; Je 49:28; 51:20, 27 Am 6:2 Na 3:5 Zp 3:8 Hg 2:22 Ez 17:14; 29:14, 15; 37:22; מַמְלְכוֹת הַגּוֹיִם 2 Ch 20:6, cf. Is 13:4; מַמְלְכוֹת הָאָרֶץ 2 K 19:15, 19 = Is 37:16, 20, 2 Ch 36:23 = Ezr 1:2, ψ 68:33 Is 23:17 Je 15:4; 24:9; 25:26; 29:18; 34:1, 17; מַמְלְכוֹת הָֽאֲרָצוֹת 1 Ch 29:30 2 Ch 12:8; 17:10; 20:29; of Isr. Am 9:8 Dt 17:20 2 S 3:28 La 2:2 2 Ch 21:4; cf. מַמְלֶכֶת כֹּהֲנִים Ex 19:6 (‖ גּוֹי קָדוֹשׁ); of Mess. king Is 9:6; צְבִי מַמְלָכוֹת (of Babylon) Is 13:19, גְּבֶרֶת מ׳ (id.) 47:5; מִשְׁפְּחֹת מַמְלְכוֹת צָפ֫וֹנָה Je 1:15. e.g. Genesis 10:10
- 2. sovereignty, dominion 1 S 13:14 (Isr.; c. תָּקוּם), cf. 24:21; 2 Ch 13:8 מ׳ י׳ בְּיַד בְּנֵי דָּוִיד; לְךָ י׳ הַמַּמ׳ 1 Ch 29:11; חָֽזְקָה בְּיַד 2 K 14:5; ח׳ עַל 2 Ch 25:3 הֶהֱזִיק בְּיַד 2 K 15:19 cf. 2 Ch 22:9; הֵכִין מ׳ אֶל (subj. י׳) 1 S 13:13 (Isr.), cf. 2 S 7:12, 16 (‖ בַּיִת); 2 Ch 17:5 (בְּיַד) cf. 1 K 2:46 (נָכוֹנָה בְּיַד); נִשֵּׂא מ׳ (subj. י׳ 2 S 5:12; נָתַן מ׳ לְדָוִד עַל (subj. י׳) 2 Ch 13:5, cf. 21:3; קָרַע הַמּ׳ מִן (subj. י׳) 1 S 28:17 (Isr.) 1 K 11:11 (sq. מֵעַל), v 31; 14:8; מִן om. 11:13; לָקַח מִיָּדוֹ 11:34 (or = kingdom?), הֶעֱבִיר מ׳ מִן (subj. י׳), 2 S 3:10 (Isr.); נִשְׁבַּת מ׳ מִן Is 17:3; cf. תָּשׁוּב הַמּ׳ לְ 1 K 12;12:26; עדיך תאתה ובאה … מ׳ Mi 4:8; הֵשִׁיב מ׳ לְ 2 Ch 11:1; כִּסֵּא מ׳ Dt 17:18 (Isr.; יָשַׁב עַל), 2 S 7:13 (כֹּנֵן י׳), 1 K 9:5 (הֵקִים י׳) 2 Ch 23:20, כִּסֵּא מַמְלָכוֹת Hg 2:22; בֵּית מ׳ royal house Am 7:13; עָרֵי הַמּ׳ royal cities Jos 10:2 cf. 1 S 27:5; זֶרַע הַמּ׳ royal seed, children, 2 K 11:1 = 2 Ch 22:10. e.g. 1 Samuel 13:14
- 3. reign, בְּרֵאשִׁית מ׳ Je 27:1; 28:1 in the beginning of the reign of (cf. מַלְכוּת 2, מַמְלָכוּת 3). e.g. Jeremiah 27:1
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
n.f. kingdom, sovereignty, dominion, reign;—abs. מ׳ Jos 10:2 +; cstr. מַמְלֶ֫כֶת Ex 19:6 + 11 times (incl. Mi 4:8 before לְ); sf. מַמְלַכְתִּי Gn 20:9 +, etc.; pl. מַמְלָכוֹת Dt 3:21 +; cstr. מַמְלְכוֹת Dt 28:25 +;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מלך (mâlak) (H4427) — to reign.
Forms in the corpus
The 61 distinct written forms H4467 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.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 1 rarer form follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4467, 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
- מלוכה mᵉlûwkâh H4410 kingship
- מלך melek H4428 king
- מלך mᵉlak H4431 counsel
- מלכות malkûwth H4438 kingdom
- מלכת mᵉleketh H4446 queen
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- ימלך Yamlêk H3230 Jamlech
- מלוך Mallûwk H4409 Malluch
- מלך Môlek H4432 Molech
- מלכת Môleketh H4447 Hammoleketh
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 12 — not the complete family. 4 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 106 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 113 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
- Genesis 10:10
- Exodus 19:6
- Numbers 32:33
- Deuteronomy 3:4
- Joshua 10:2
- 1 Samuel 10:18
- 2 Samuel 3:10
- 1 Kings 2:46
- 2 Kings 11:1
- 1 Chronicles 16:20
- 2 Chronicles 9:19
- Ezra 1:2
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.
