Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H4427: מָלַךְ (mâlak) Definition

Strong's number
H4427
Lemma
מָלַךְ
Transliteration
mâlak
Pronunciation
maw-lak'
Strong's definition
to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel consult, [idiom] indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, [idiom] surely. a primitive root;

279 instances of the word מָלַךְ mâlak (H4427)


  • 1 Samuel 16:1 - said And the LORD unto Samuel How long wilt thou mourn for Saul seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel fill thine horn with oil I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite for I have provided among his sons me a king

  • 1 Samuel 23:17 - And he said unto him Fear shall not find not for the hand of Saul my father thee and thou shalt be king over Israel and I shall be next of Saul my father knoweth

  • 1 Samuel 24:20 - And now behold I know well be king be king shall be established in thine hand and that the kingdom of Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 1:8 - said And Solomon unto God Thou hast shewed unto David my father mercy great and hast made me to reign

  • 2 Chronicles 1:9 - Now O LORD God be established let thy promise unto David my father for thou hast made me king over a people in multitude like the dust of the earth

  • 2 Chronicles 1:11 - said And God to Solomon Because this was in thine heart and thou hast not asked riches wealth or honour nor the life of thine enemies life long and thou hast not asked and thou hast not asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself that thou mayest judge my people over whom I have made thee king

  • 2 Chronicles 1:13 - came Then Solomon from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem from before the tabernacle of the congregation and reigned over Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 9:30 - reigned And Solomon in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years

  • 2 Chronicles 9:31 - slept And Solomon his father and he was buried in the city of David his father reigned and Rehoboam his son

  • 2 Chronicles 10:1 - And Rehoboam for to Shechem for to Shechem come were all Israel to make him king

  • 2 Chronicles 10:17 - But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah reigned Rehoboam

  • 2 Chronicles 11:22 - made the chief And Rehoboam Abijah the son of Maachah to be ruler among his brethren for he thought to make him king

  • 2 Chronicles 12:13 - strengthened So king Rehoboam himself in Jerusalem and he reigned old and forty was one years Rehoboam and he reigned seventeen years and he reigned himself in Jerusalem the city had chosen which the LORD to put his name out of all the tribes of Israel his name there And his mother's was Naamah an Ammonitess

  • 2 Chronicles 12:16 - slept And Rehoboam with his fathers and was buried in the city of David reigned and Abijah his son

  • 2 Chronicles 13:1 - year Now in the eighteenth of king Jeroboam to reign began Abijah over Judah

  • 2 Chronicles 13:2 - three years He reigned in Jerusalem name His mother's also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam

  • 2 Chronicles 14:1 - slept So Abijah with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David reigned and Asa his son in his stead In his days was quiet the land ten years

  • 2 Chronicles 16:13 - slept And Asa with his fathers and died year and fortieth in the one of his reign

  • 2 Chronicles 17:1 - reigned And Jehoshaphat his son in his stead and strengthened himself against Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 17:7 - year Also in the third of his reign he sent to his princes even to Benhail and to Obadiah and to Zechariah and to Nethaneel and to Michaiah to teach in the cities of Judah