Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4446
מְלֶכֶת
melekethmel-eh'-keth
queen
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉleketh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4446is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4446
a queen
The King James renders it: queen.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
meleketh is rendered "queen". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Jeremiah 7:18The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
Jeremiah 7:18לִמְלֶ֣כֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to queen of4
- for queen of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לִמְלֶ֣כֶת4
- לִמְלֶ֧כֶת1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HR/Ncfsc
Jeremiah
five uses
The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
- לִמְלֶ֣כֶתlimlekhetpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for queen of
Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
- לִמְלֶ֣כֶתlimlekhetpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to queen of
But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
- לִמְלֶ֧כֶתlimlekhetpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to queen of
“Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
- לִמְלֶ֣כֶתlimlekhetpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to queen of
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!
- לִמְלֶ֣כֶתlimlekhetpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to queen of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.