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Word Study · Strong's H4438 · Hebrew

מַלְכוּת

malkuth

mal-kooth'

Strong's 1890 spelling: malkûwth

a rule

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a rule; concretely, a dominion

Rendered in the KJV as

empire, kingdom, realm, reign, royal.

  • 91
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 49
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 91 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 49

  • מַלְכוּת֔וֹ9
  • מַלְכ֥וּת7
  • מַלְכ֖וּת5
  • לְמַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃4
  • הַמַּלְכ֖וּת3
  • לְמַלְכ֖וּת3
  • מַלְכ֔וּת3
  • מַלְכ֣וּת3
  • מַלְכ֑וּת3
  • מַלְכוּת֙3
  • מַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃3
  • הַמַּלְכ֔וּת2

and 37 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 33

  • kingdom his17
  • [the] kingdom of11
  • royalty10
  • of [the] reign of8
  • kingdom your5
  • [the] reign of3
  • of reign his3
  • royalty his3
  • the kingdom3
  • for royalty his2
  • in [the] reign of2
  • reign his2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 16

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular23
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)16
  • noun · feminine singular11
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)11
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular9
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular5
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular5
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular2
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 23
  • HNcfsc · 16
  • HNcfsa · 11
  • HR/Ncfsc · 11
  • HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms · 9
  • HNcfsc/Sp2ms · 5
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 5
  • HNcfsc/Sp3mp · 2
  • HRd/Ncfsa · 2
  • HC/Ncfsc/Sp2ms · 1
  • HC/Ncfsc/Sp3fs · 1
  • HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms · 1

All 91, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Esther carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Numbers1 occurrence
1 Samuel1 occurrence
1 Kings1 occurrence
1 Chronicles11 occurrences
2 Chronicles17 occurrences
Ezra6 occurrences
Nehemiah2 occurrences
Esther26 occurrences
Psalms6 occurrences
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Jeremiah3 occurrences
Daniel16 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).