מַמְלָכוּת
mamlâkûwth · H4468 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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kingship, kingdom
State in which a person or deity has been entrusted with the office of king or queen
Examples1 Samuel 15:28 So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor, who is better than you.
2 Samuel 16:3 Then the king said, “And where is your master’s son?” And Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore the kingdom of my father to me.’”
Jeremiah 26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,
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kingdom, realm
The realm of a king or queen including the people, the land, and all other assets
ExamplesJoshua 13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses struck them and drove them out.
Joshua 13:21 even all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the leaders of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the leaders of Sihon, who lived in the land.
Joshua 13:27 and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as a border, as far as the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan to the east.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
9 occurrences in 6 groups
- עוֹגOg 3
- סִיחוֹןSihon 2
- אָבfather 1
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
- יְהוֹיָקִיםJehoiakim 1
- יִשְׂרָאֵלIsrael 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּשָׁןBashan 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- קָרַעto tear, to rend, to cut 1
- שָׁבַתto cease, to rest, to put an end 1
- שׁוּבto return, to turn back 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- יֶתֶרremainder 1
- עִירcity, town 1
- רֵאשִׁיתbeginning, first, best 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- βασιλεία basileía · G932 · rule, reign, kingdom
- Greek βασιλεία directly translates Hebrew מַמְלָכוּת in the LXX as the standard rendering for 'kingdom/reign,' covering both the abstract concept of royal rule and the concrete realm governed.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Control002003002007
- מַמְלָכוּת, like its more common cognate מַמְלָכָה, denotes the exercise of royal governing authority over a realm.
- Groups001001003004
- מַמְלָכוּת can denote the people ruled as a collective body under a single kingdom, sharing this sense with its cognate מַמְלָכָה.
- Land001002002
- מַמְלָכוּת also denotes the territory of a kingdom, the land over which the reign extends, again paralleling its cognate מַמְלָכָה.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4468. mamlakuth [מַמְלָכוּת] noun feminine kingdom, dominion, reign (on form compare…
[מַמְלָכוּת] noun feminine kingdom, dominion, reign (on form compare We1Sa 15:28 Dron the passage id.); — construct מַמְלְכוּת Jos 13:12 + 8t.;
1 kingdom of Og Jos 13:12, Jos 13:30, Jos 13:31; of Sihon Jos 13:21; Jos 13:27.
2 dominion, royal power with מֵעַל קָרַע (subject ׳י) 1Sa 15:28; with לְ הֵשִׁיב (hum. subject) 2Sa 16:3; with הִשְׁבִּית Hos 1:4.
3 reign מַמ ׳בְּרֵאשִׁית Jer 26:1 (compare מַמְלָכָה
3, מַלְכוּת 2).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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