Strong's H4441 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: מַלְכִּיָּה (Malkîyâh)

Pronunciation: mal-kee-yaw'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Name Meaning: Malchijah or Malchiah or Melchiah = "my king is Jehovah"

Derivation: or מַלְכִּיָּהוּ (Malkîyâhûw); (Jeremiah [38:6), from מֶלֶךְ (melek) [H4428] and יָהּ (Yâhh) [H3050]; king of (i.e. appointed by) Jah;

Definition: Malkijah, the name of ten Israelites

KJV Renderings: Malchiah, Malchijah.

Senses

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

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.