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Nehemiah 10:28
“And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4409 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Malluk, the name of five Israelites
- Derivation
- or מַלּוּכִי; (Nehemiah 12:14), from H4427 (מָלַךְ); remnant;
- KJV renderings
- Malluch, Melichu (from the margin).
- Grammar
- מַלּ֥וּךְ — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 8 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Chronicles 6:29Ezra 10:29Ezra 10:32Nehemiah 10:5Nehemiah 12:2
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 מַלּוּךְ 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.