מְלָאכָה (mĕlāʾkâ) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning occupation. It appears
167 times
in 21 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H4399).
Also rendered
work
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1068b)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1068b)occupation, work; business; property; workmanship; service, use; public business; deputyship, ministry, employment; cattle, industrious, officer, thing
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
מְלָאכָהnoun, feminine: occupation, work
1.occupation, business
2.property
3.work as something done or made
4.workmanship
5.service, use
6.public business
Strong's H4399מְלָאכָה: properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor) KJV:business, cattle, industrious, occupation, (-pied), officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 1068: לאךlʾk — messenger, send a messenger, be sent, wait on, minister