King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H4399
Transliteration: melakah
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-aw-kaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: occupation, work
Meaning: deputyship, ministry, employment, work, property
Word Summary
melakah: occupation, work
Original Word: מְלָאכָהTransliteration: melakah
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-aw-kaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: occupation, work
Meaning: deputyship, ministry, employment, work, property
Strong's Concordance
business, cattle, industrious, occupation, officer, manner of workman,From the same as mal'ak; properly, deputyship, i.e. Ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor) -- business, + cattle, + industrious, occupation, (+ -pied), + officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
see HEBREW mal'ak
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4399. melakah
מְלָאכָה167 noun feminine occupation, work (for *מַלְאָכָה; compare Phoenician מלאכת labour) — ׳מ Exodus 12:16 102t.; מְלָ֑אכֶת2 Chronicles 13:10; construct מְלֶאכֶת Exodus 35:24 42t.; suffix מְלַאכְתְּךָ Jonah 1:8; מְלַאכְתֶּ֑ךָ Exodus 20:9 2t.; מְלַאכְתּוֺ Genesis 2:2 13t.; plural construct מַלְאֲכוֺת 1 Chronicles 28:19; suffix מַלְאֲכוֺתֶיךָ Psalm 73:28; —
1 occupation, business, מְּלַאכְתְּךָ מַה what is thy occupation Jonah 1:8; business of a steward Genesis 39:11 (J); diligent in business Proverbs 22:29; slack in business 18:9.
2 property in which one is occupied, ׳מ רעהוּ his neighbour's property Exodus 22:7; 22:10 (E); possessions of herds and flocks Genesis 33:14 (J), 1 Samuel 15:9 (compare מִקְנֶה); ׳מ רבה great property2 Chronicles 17:13.
3 work as something done or made:
a. of God in creation Genesis 2:2 (twice in verse); 2:3 (P), in judgment Jeremiah 50:25, in General Psalm 73:28.
b. of men, ׳מ עור leather-work Leviticus 13:48, 51 (P), ׳מ השׂדה work in the field 1 Chronicles 27:26; in building Proverbs 24:27 +, the walls of Jerusalem Nehemiah 4:5 +, making the tabernacle and its furniture Exodus 36:2 +, the temple 1 Kings 5:30 +; work of the potter Jeremiah 18:3, of the seaman Psalm 107:23, of the Levites 1 Chronicles 26:29, of priests in the sacrifices 2 Chronicles 29:34; (ה)עֲבֹדָה מְלָאכֶת phrase of P, Exodus 35:24; 36:1, 3; Leviticus 23:7-8, 21, 25, 35, 36; Numbers 28:18, 25, 26; 29:1, 12, 35 also 1 Chronicles 9:13; 9:19; 28:13; 28:20; 2 Chronicles 24:12; ׳המ לעבדה 1 Chronicles 23:24; למ ׳עבדה Exodus 36:5 (P); compare the phrase המ ׳עֹשֵׂה workmen Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 2:16; במ ׳עֹשִׂים 1 Kings 5:30; 1 Kings 9:23 +; מ ׳כל any work forbidden on the Sabbath Exodus 20:9-10, Leviticus 23:3 (P) Deuteronomy 5:13-14, Jeremiah 17:22, 24; on holy convocations Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 16:29; 23:28, 30, 31; Numbers 29:7 (P).
4 workmanship, מלאכה כל in every kind of workmanship, phrase of P: Exodus 31:3, 5; 35:29, 31, 33, 35; and Chronicles: 1 Chronicles 22:15; 28:21; 29:5; 1 Kings 7:14.
5 service, use Leviticus 7:24; 11:32; Judges 16:11; Ezekiel 28:13.
6 public business:
a. political 1 Kings 11:28; 1 Chronicles 29:6; Daniel 8:27; Esther 3:9; 9:3.
b. religious, putting away foreign wives Ezra 10:13; ׳מ יהוה 1 Chronicles 26:30; הַקֹּדֶשׁ׳מ Exodus 36:4; 38:24 (P), ׳מ הקדשׁים קדשׁ 1 Chronicles 6:34; מועד ׳מ אהל Exodus 35:21 (P), ׳מ י ׳בית 1 Chronicles 23:4; Ezra 3:8; 6:22; Nehemiah 10:34; 11:22.