Word Study · Strong's H4435 · Hebrew
מִלְכָּה
Milkah
mil-kaw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Milkâh
“Milcah, the name of a Hebrewess and of an Israelite”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Milcah, the name of a Hebrewess and of an Israelite
Rendered in the KJV as
Milcah.
- 11occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 7inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 11 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 7
- מִלְכָּ֔ה3
- מִלְכָּ֖ה3
- וּמִלְכָּ֖ה1
- וּמִלְכָּ֛ה1
- מִלְכָּ֥ה1
- מִלְכָּ֕ה1
- מִלְכָּ֑ה1
How it is rendered · 3
- Milcah8
- and Milcah2
- [was] Milcah1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- proper noun (a name)9
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpf · 9
- HC/Npf · 2
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Genesis7 occurrences
- Genesis 11:29מִלְכָּ֔הmilkahproper noun (a name)And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.here: [was] Milcah
- Genesis 11:29מִלְכָּ֖הmilkahproper noun (a name)And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.here: Milcah
- Genesis 22:20מִלְכָּ֥הmilkahproper noun (a name)Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:here: Milcah
- Genesis 22:23מִלְכָּ֔הmilkahproper noun (a name)And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.here: Milcah
- Genesis 24:15מִלְכָּ֔הmilkahproper noun (a name)Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.here: Milcah
- Genesis 24:24מִלְכָּ֕הmilkahproper noun (a name)She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”here: Milcah
- Genesis 24:47מִלְכָּ֑הmilkahproper noun (a name)Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.here: Milcah
Numbers3 occurrences
- Numbers 26:33מִלְכָּ֖הmilkahproper noun (a name)Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.here: Milcah
- Numbers 27:1וּמִלְכָּ֖הumilkahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approachedhere: and Milcah
- Numbers 36:11וּמִלְכָּ֛הumilkahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their father’s side.here: and Milcah