1 Kings 14:21:31 Kgs.14.21.W3TAB
מָלַ֖ךְ
malakh
“reigned”
- Transliteration
- ma-LAKH
- Extended
- maa-LAHKH
- IPA
- /maːˈlax/
Meaning by language
- English
- reigned
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Kaf Sofit | final form of Kaf — at word end | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ma-LAKH
- clause
u-re-kha-vam ben-she-lo-MO ma-LAKH bi-ye-hu-DA
- sentence
u-re-kha-vam ben-she-lo-MO ma-LAKH bi-ye-hu-DA ben-ar-ba-IM ve-a-KHAT sha-NA re-kha-VAM be-mal-KHO u-sha-VA e-se-RE sha-NA ma-LAKH bi-ru-sha-LA-im ha-IR a-sher-ba-KHAR ye-ho-VAH la-SUM et-she-MO SHAM mi-KOL shiv-TE yis-ra-EL ve-SHEM im-MO na-a-MA ha-a-mo-NIT-akh
Exegesis
The first main clause uses mālaḵ {מָלַךְ | mālaḵ} ‘he reigned’ with the territorial sphere bîhûdāh {בִּיהוּדָה | bîhûdāh} ‘in Judah.’
The second mālaḵ {מָלַךְ | mālaḵ} introduces the reign-location bîrûšālayim {בִּירוּשָׁלַם | bîrûšālayim} ‘in Jerusalem,’ then a specifying apposition hāʿîr {הָעִיר | hāʿîr} ‘the city’ is expanded by a relative clause ʾăšer-bāḥar YHWH {אֲשֶׁר־בָּחַר יְהוָה | ʾăšer-bāḥar YHWH} ‘which the LORD chose.’
Root and etymology
consonantsMem–Lamed–Kaf
“to reign”
In context — 1 Kings 14:21
And Rehoboam , the son of Solomon, reigned in Judah. Forty-one years old was Rehoboam when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD chose from all the tribes of Israel to set His Name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 14:21:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 1 Kings 14:21, so the Hebrew word מָלַ֖ךְ (malakh) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Kgs.14.21.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.14.21.W3.S1) and character.