TBESH · H4446
מְלֶ֫כֶת · me.le.khet · queen
queen
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me.le.khet H4446
מְלֶ֫כֶת (me.le.khet) means “queen” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
מְלֶ֫כֶת Hebrew · H4446 5 tagged occurrences in 5 verses
Pronunciation guide: mel-eh'-keth Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H4427 (מָלַךְ); a queen
KJV glosses: queen.
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How translators render H4446
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to the queen | 4 |
| for the queen | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to the queen | 4 |
| unto the queen | 1 |
Verses containing H4446
Page 1 of 1. 5 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Jeremiah 7:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!
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