מַלְכִּיָּה

Strong’s Definition

Malkijah, the name of ten Israelites

Etymology & Derivation

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

KJV Usage

Malchiah, Malchijah.

Detailed Definition

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

• 1.the father of pashur in the time of jeremiah
• 2.the son of hammelech into whose dungeon jeremiah was cast
• 3.the head of the 5th course of priests in the time of david
• 4.one of the priests who was at the reading of the law by ezra, sealed the covenant with nehemiah, and was at the dedication of the wall with nehemiah
• 5.a levite ancestor of asaph and descendant of levi through gershon
• 6.son of parosh who put away a foreign wife in the time of ezra
• 7.son of harim who put away a foreign wife and helped repair the wall and the tower of ovens in the time of ezra and nehemiah
• 8.son of rechab, leader of the district of beth haccerem, who helped repair the refuse gate in the time of nehemiah
• 9.a goldsmith who helped repair the wall in the time of nehemiah

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Malkîyâh; Pronunciation: mal-kee-yaw'