Definition

{dominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)}

Etymology

a form of H4467 (מַמְלָכָה) and equiv. to it

Where the KJV renders it

• kingdom
• reign

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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.