מַלּוּךְ

Strong’s Definition

Malluk, the name of five Israelites

Etymology & Derivation

or מַלּוּכִי; (Nehemiah 12:14), from H4427 (מָלַךְ); remnant;

KJV Usage

Malluch, Melichu (from the margin).

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.a merarite levite, son of hashabiah
• 2.a descendant of bani who had a foreign wife in the time of ezra
• 3.a descendant of harim who had a foreign wife in the time of ezra
• 4.a priest who signed the covenant with nehemiah
• 5.one of the leaders of the people who signed the covenant with nehemiah
• 6.a priest who returned from exile with zerubbabel

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Mallûwk; Pronunciation: mal-luke'