Strong’s H4446 · Hebrew
מְלֶכֶת
mᵉleketh
mel-eh'-keth
Definition
a queen
Etymology
from H4427 (מָלַךְ);
Where the KJV renders it
- queen
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
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