Strong H44272 sensesמָלַךְ
to reign · to advise
- Transliteration
- mâlak
- Pronunciation
- maw-lak'
The 2 senses of Strong H4427
The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H4427 appears in 284 verses of the KJV, all senses together.
General definition
A primitive root; to reign; inceptively to ascend the throne; causatively to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel: - {consult} X {indeed} be ({make} set {a} set up) {king} be (make) {queen} (begin {to} make to) reign ({-ing}) {rule} X surely.
In the Bible
Translated in the KJV by
- reign219
- king31
- make22
- reigneth11
- set2
- thou2
- consult1
- queen1
- reigned1
- rule1
First verses
- Genesis 36:31And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
- Genesis 36:32And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
- Genesis 36:33And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
- Genesis 36:34And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.
- Genesis 36:35And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.
- Genesis 36:36And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
- Genesis 36:37And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.
- Genesis 36:38And Saul died, and Baal–hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
- Genesis 36:39And Baal–hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
- Genesis 37:8And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
- Exodus 15:18The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.
- Joshua 13:10And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
- Joshua 13:12All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
- Joshua 13:21And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.
- Judges 4:2And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
- Judges 9:6And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
- Judges 9:8The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
- Judges 9:10And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
- Judges 9:12Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
- Judges 9:14Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.