מָלַךְ malakh

Hebrew word for “to reign” · Strong’s H4427 · used 348 times in 284 verses

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Meaning

1) to be or become king or queen, reign;

Senses in the lexicon

• to reign (347)
• to advise (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for malakh in context, with how often each is used:

• reigned 105
• became king 78
• when became king he 40
• made king 24
• will reign 22
• reigning 19
• have made king 8
• make king 8
• reigns 7
• reign 4
• has become king 4
• will make king 2

Where it is used

Also in 10 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 15 (16), 1 Kings 16 (11), 1 Kings 15 (10), Genesis 36 (9), 1 Kings 1 (9), 2 Chronicles 36 (9), 1 Chronicles 1 (8), Judges 9 (7), 2 Kings 8 (7), 2 Kings 14 (6)

Forms

• מלך 115
• וימלך 89
• במלכו 39
• ימלך 14
• למלכו 12
• וימליכו 11
• וימלכו 6
• להמליך 6
• המלך 4
• ממלך 4

Words used with it

Words that share verses with malakh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 106
• תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 86
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 60
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 59
• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 36
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 35
• שָׁכַב shakhav “to lie down” 31
• אָב av “father” 48
• קָבַר qavar “to bury” 28
• דָּוִד david “David” 45
• אֵם em “mother” 30
• עִם im “with” 41

Key verses

The verses using malakh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 15:11 — It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and…
• 1 Samuel 16:1 — And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I…
• 2 Kings 11:12 — And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their…
• Psalms 93:1 — The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it…
• Psalms 96:10 — Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
• Psalms 99:1 — The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
• Isaiah 24:23 — Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
• Isaiah 32:1 — Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
• Isaiah 52:7 — How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth…
• Jeremiah 22:15 — Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
• Jeremiah 23:5 — Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and…
• Daniel 9:2 — In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.