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2 Chronicles 17:13
“And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מְלָאכָהmᵉlâʼkâh · mel-aw-kaw'
H4399 · Hebrew
H4399 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
- Derivation
- from the same as H4397 (מֲלְאָךְ);
- KJV renderings
- business, [phrase] cattle, [phrase] industrious, occupation, ([phrase] -pied), [phrase] officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- מְלָאכָ֥ה — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 167 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:2Genesis 2:2Genesis 2:3Genesis 33:14Genesis 39:11
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מְלָאכָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.