מָלַךְ
mālak
reign
Strong's H4427VerbHebrewTWOT 1200Leadership

מָלַךְ (mālak) is a Hebrew verb meaning reign. It appears 351 times in 22 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4427).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1200)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1200)counsel, advise; reign, ascend the throne, induct, take counsel; consult, be king, be queen, reigning, rule
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

מָלַךְ verb: counsel, advise

Strong's H4427 מָלַךְ: to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel
KJV:consult, × indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, × surely.

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.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 36:31Exodus 15:18Joshua 13:10

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