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2 Chronicles 20:31
“And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4427 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- consult, [idiom] indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, [idiom] surely.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּמְלֹ֥ךְ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 351 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 36:31Genesis 36:31Genesis 36:32Genesis 36:33Genesis 36:34
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 מָלַךְ 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.