STRONGS NUMBER H4446


Word Summary
meleketh: queen
Original Word: מְלֶכֶת
Transliteration: meleketh
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-eh'-keth)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: queen
Meaning: a queen
Strong's Concordance
queen

From malak; a queen -- queen.

see HEBREW malak

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4446. meleketh

מְלֶ֫כֶתnoun feminine queen (form difficult; compare Ol§ 147 dii, 169 n. GieJeremiah 7:18 BaNB 165, Anm. 2; ZMG xii. 1887, 606); — only construct ׳מ הַשָּׁמַיִם7:18 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 ׳צְבָאhost of heaven, Stabelow (compare ᵐ5‎); see SchrCOT 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. 38ZMG 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 ׳הַשּׁ7:18 ("" אֲחֵרִים לֵאלֹהִים נְסָכִים הַסֵּךְ‎); לִמ ׳לְקַטֵּר ׳הַשּׁ44:17-18, 19, 25 (all "" נְסָכִים לָהּ הַסֵּךְ‎).