Word

מִלְכָּה

Milkâh · H4435 · Hebrew · proper noun · 11 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Milcahwife of Nahor6 verses
Milcahdaughter of Zelophehad4 verses

Meanings

Milcah

Woman; daughter of Haran; wife of Nahor

Examples
Genesis 11:29 Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Genesis 22:20 Now it came about after these things, that Abraham was told, saying, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
Genesis 22:23 and it was Bethuel who fathered Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
Milcah

Woman; daughter of Zelophehad; tribe of Manasseh

Examples
Numbers 26:33 Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 27:1 Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came forward; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 36:11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 3 groups

בַּתdaughter 1
הוּאhe, she, it 1
אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 1 groups

יָלַדto bear 3

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שֵׁםname 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בֵּןson 2
אָבfather 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: Milcah names Abraham's sister-in-law, the wife of Nahor and grandmother of Rebekah (Genesis 11:29; 22:20, 23), and one of the five daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 27:1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4435. Milkah מִלְכָּה proper name, feminine ᵐ5 Μελχα (= מַלְכָּה ? NöZMG xlii. 1888. 484…

H4435. Milkah
מִלְכָּה proper name, feminine ᵐ5 Μελχα (= מַלְכָּה ? NöZMG xlii. 1888. 484 compare Phoenician proper name, of deities מלכת; compare GrayProp. N. 116); —
1 wife of Nahor Gen 11:29 (twice in verse); Gen 22:20, Gen 22:23; Gen 24:15, Gen 24:24, Gen 24:47 (all J).
2 daughter of Zelo-phehad (of Manasseh), Num 26:33; Num 27:1; Num 36:11; Jos 17:3 (all P). — Perhaps original town-name, Grayl.c.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People11 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0