Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H4427
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- malak
- Pronunciation
- maw-lak'
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H4427
- Brief meaning
- To reign, inceptively, to ascend the throne, causatively, to induct into royalty
- Source renderings
- consult, indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, surely
- Root word
- a primitive root
- Full definition from the source
- To reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel. Root word: a primitive root.
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
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04427\ 4427 malak maw-lak' a primitive root; to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel:--consult, X indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, X surely.