Definition

Malkijah, the name of ten Israelites

Etymology

or מַלְכִּיָּהוּlemma מַלְכִּיָהוּ missing dagesh, corrected to מַלְכִּיָּהוּ; (Jeremiah [38:6), from H4428 (מֶלֶךְ) and H3050 (יָהּ); king of (i.e. appointed by) Jah;

Where the KJV renders it

• Malchiah
• Malchijah

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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