מִשְׁתֵּה הַמּ׳
1 S 25:36
royal feast
(in
sim.
);
אֶבֶן הַמּ׳
2 S 14:26
king’s weight;
יַד־הַמּ׳
1 K 10:13
royal bounty
(in
sim.
);
גִּזֵּי הַמּ׳
Am 7:1
king’s mowings;
מִקְדַּשׁ מ׳
Am 7:13
royal sanctuary;
עֲטֶרֶת מַלְכָּם
2 S 12:30
crown of their king
=
1 Ch 20:2
(but read
מִלְכֹּם
Ö
We Klo Dr Kit Kau
—not
Bu Kit
Chr. Hpt);
cf.
also
בַּיִת
,
עֵמֶק
,
גַּן
,
שָׁוֵה
, etc.—
N.pr.
אבימלך
,
אחימלך
,
אלימלך
,
נתן מלך
,
עבד מלך
,
v.
sub
אב
,
אח
, etc.
מַלְכָּה
S
4433, 4436
TWOT
1199b, 2829b
GK
489335
n.m.
qeen
:—
abs.
מ׳
Est 1:9
+
24 times Est.;
cstr.
מַלְכַּת
1 K 10:1
+
7 times;
pl.
מְלָכֹות
Ct 6:
8,
9
;—
queen
of Sheba
1 K 10:1
,
4
,
10
,
13
=
2 Ch 9:
1,
3
,
9
,
12
; of Persia, Vashti
Est 1:9
+
7 times
Est 1
; Esther
Est 2:22
+
16 times
Est 4–9
(in Esther mostly appos. of
n.pr.
; it precedes
n.pr.
Est 1:1
2,
15
; follows
n.pr.
Est 1:9
+
17 times); of Isr. queens only
pl.
and only
Ct 6:8
,
9
(both
||
פִּילַגְשִּׁים
).
Cf.
גְּבִירָה
.
• מְלֶ˜כֶת S 4446 TWOT 1199c GK 4906 n.f. queen ( form difficult; cf. Ol § 147 d Kö ii , 169 n. Gie Je 7:18 Ba NB 165, Anm. 2; ZMG xii, 1887, 606 ) ;—only cstr. מ׳ הַשָּׁמַיִם Je 7:18 + 4 times Je = queen of the heavens , a goddess; identif. dub. ; perhaps = Ištar , Venus, cf. Schr infr. al. ; ( > = מְלֶאכֶת (Codd.), cstr. of מְלָאכָה ( v. לאך ), worship of the heavens (Cast Lex. Syriac ), or creative work of the heavens , coll. = צְבָא הַשּׁ׳ host of heaven , Sta infr. ( cf. Ö ); v. Schr COT Je 7, 18; SBAk 1886, 477 ff.; ZA iii, 1888, 353 ff., iv. 1889, 74 ff. Sta ZAW 1886, 123 ff. 289 ff. Kue Ges. Abh. 186 ff. We Skizzen iii. 38 Nö ZMG xli. 1889, 710 f. RS Sem i. 57, 172 (ed. 2, 57, 189) Grünb ZMG xlii. 1888, 45 );—only as worshipped by people of Jerusalem לַעֲשֹׂות כַּוָּנִים לִמְ׳ הַשּׁ׳ Je 7:18 ( || הַסֵּךְ נְסָכִים לֵאלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים ); לְקַטֵּר לִמ׳ הַשּׁ׳ Je 44:1 7, 18 , 19 , 25 (all || הַסֵּךְ לָהּ נְסָכִים ).
Hpt Sacred Books of the O.T., ed. Hpt (Polychrome Bible). Ol J. Olshausen, Heb. Gram.
Kö E. König, Heb. Gram. Schr E. Schrader.
Sta B. Stade.
COT The Cuneiform Inscr. & the Old Test. (Eng. Trans. of KAT 2;, by O.H. Whitehouse).
SBAk Sitzungsbericht d. Berl. Akademie der Wissenschaften .
ZAW Z. f. alttest. Wissenschaft . Kue A. Kuenen, Beiträge . We J. Wellhousen, Skizzen und Vorarbeiten . RS W. Robertson Smith, Religion of Semites.