Bible dictionaries

Malluch

What Bible dictionaries say about “Malluch”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Malluch - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Reigned over, or reigning. (1.) A Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chr. 6:44).

(2.) A priest who returned from Babylon (Neh. 12:2).

(3.) Ezra 10:29. (4.) Ezra 10:32

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

mal'-uk (mallukh, "counsellor"):

(1) A Levite of the sons of Merari, ancestor of Ethan the singer (1Ch 6:44; compare 6:29).

(2) Son of Bani, among those who had foreign wives (Ezr 10:29). He is a descendant of Judah (1Ch 9:4) and is the Mamuchus of 1 Esdras 9:30.

(3) A descendant of Harim, who married a foreign wife (Ezr 10:32).

(4) (5) Two who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Ne 10:4,27).

(6) Possibly the same as (4). One of the priests who returned with Zerubbabel (Ne 12:2). Doubtless the Melicu of verse 14's margin.

Henry Wallace

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(counsellor).
  1. A Levite of the family of Merari, and ancestor of Ethan the singer (1 Chronicles 6:44)
  2. One of the sons of Bani. (Ezra 10:29) and
  3. One of the descendants of Harim, (Ezra 10:32) who had married foreign wives.
  4. A priest or family of priests. (Nehemiah 10:4) and
  5. One of the heads of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:27)
  6. One of the families of priests who returned with Zerubbabel, (Nehemiah 12:2) probably the same as No. 4.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith