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H4436 מַלְכָּה (malkâh) mal-kaw'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

feminine of 4428; a queen

KJV Usage: queen

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מַלְכָּה (mal.kah) — Queen (of Sheba). A queen of the country Sheba (H7614J) living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.10.1 Combined with she.va (שְׁבָא " of Sheba" H7614J) § queen

מַלְכָּה (mal.kah) — queen. queen Aramaic equivalent: mal.kah (מַלְכָּה "queen" H4433)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun f · מלך

Leaders

queen = female, foreign ruler of a nation or area

1KI 10:1 · 1KI 10:4 · 1KI 10:10 · 1KI 10:13 · 2CH 9:1 · 2CH 9:3 · 2CH 9:9 · 2CH 9:12 · EST 1:9 · EST 1:11 · EST 1:12 · EST 1:15 · EST 1:16 · EST 1:17 · EST 1:17 · EST 1:18 · EST 2:22 · EST 4:4 · EST 5:2 · EST 5:3 · EST 5:12 · EST 7:1 · EST 7:2 · EST 7:3 · EST 7:5 · EST 7:6 · EST 7:7 · EST 7:8 · EST 8:1 · EST 8:7 · EST 9:12 · EST 9:29 · EST 9:31 · SNG 6:8 · SNG 6:9 · DAN 5:10 · DAN 5:10

1 JER 7:18 The original reading of the passages in Jeremiah is the "queen of heaven", i.e. the mother godess. cf. versiones: LXX, Vg, Aq, Sym, Th. The cakes offered to the deity in Jer 7:18; 44:19 may have been star-shaped. The most likely candidates for the title in Jer 7 and 44 are the West Semitic Astarte and the Mesopotamian Ishtar, both of whom are fertility goddesses identified with Venus, the morning and evening star. Both were offered cakes as part of their cult, though it is only Ishtar in whose image cakes were baked and whose cult held a particular appeal for women. Ishtar was known as the queen or lady of heaven. Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah is therefore a syncretistic deity, combining aspects of Astarte and Ishtar.

A. Salvesen

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מַלְכָּה 35 n.f. queen base

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