מְלֶכֶת
mᵉleketh · H4446 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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queen of Heaven
Literally the Queen of Heaven, hence an epithet of a female deity worshipped by the Israelites, possibly to be identified with Ishtar or Ashtoreth
ExamplesJeremiah 7:18 “The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to provoke Me to anger.
Jeremiah 44:17 “But we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings, and our leaders did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food and were well off and saw no misfortune.
Jeremiah 44:18 “But since we stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything, and have met our end by the sword and by famine.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁמַיִםheaven, sky 5
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 10
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- βασίλισσα basílissa · G938 · queen
- Greek βασίλισσα (basilissa) is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew מְלֶכֶת (melekheth), both denoting a female monarch or royal consort with identical core semantics across both languages.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Deities003001004
- מְלֶכֶת occurs in the fixed title "the queen of heaven," a pagan astral goddess to whom the women of Judah are condemned for burning incense and pouring out drink offerings in Jeremiah.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4446. meleketh מְלֶ֫כֶת noun feminine queen (form difficult; compare Ol§ 147 d Köii, 169…
מְלֶ֫כֶת noun feminine queen (form difficult; compare Ol§ 147 d Köii, 169 n. GieJer 7:18 BaNB 165, Anm. 2; ZMG xii. 1887, 606); — only construct ׳מ הַשָּׁמַיִם Jer 7:18 Jer 7:4t. Jeremiah = queen of the heavens, a goddess; identification dubious; perhaps= Ištar, Venus, compare Schrbelow and others; (> = מְלֶאכֶת (Manuscripts), construct of מְלָאכָה (see לאך), worship of the heavens (CastLex. Syr.), or creative work of the heavens, collective = הַשּׁ ׳צְבָא host of heaven, Stabelow (compare ᵐ5); see SchrCOT Jer 7:18; SBAk 1886, 477 ff., ZA iii. 1888, 353 ff., iv. 1889, 74 ff. StaZAW 1886, 123 ff. 289 ff. KueGes. Abh. 186 ff. WeSkizzen iii. 38 NöZMG xli. 1889, 710 f. RSSemitic i. 57, 172 (ed. 2, 57, 189) GrünbZMG xiii.1888, 45); — only as worshipped by people of Jerusalem לִמְ כַּוָּנִים ׳לַעֲשׂוֺת ׳הַשּׁ Jer 7:18 (|| אֲחֵרִים לֵאלֹהִים נְסָכִים הַסֵּךְ); לִמ ׳לְקַטֵּר ׳הַשּׁ Jer 44:17-18, Jer 44:19, Jer 44:25 (all || נְסָכִים לָהּ הַסֵּךְ).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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