1. king — Aramaic noun meaning king, sovereign ruler. The emphatic/determined form malka is the standard Aramaic equivalent of Hebrew melek. Used overwhelmingly of the king of Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar) and of the Persian kings (Cyrus, Darius, Artaxerxes) throughout Ezra 4-7 and Daniel 2-7. All inflectional variants (absolute melek, emphatic malka, plural malkin, with prepositions le- and we-) denote the same single sense of a human sovereign or monarch. 180×
AR["المَلِك","الْمَلِكُ","الْمَلِكِ"]·ben["রাজা","রাজার"]·DE["Koenig"]·EN["king","the-king"]·FR["le-roi"]·heb["מלכא"]·HI["राजा","राजा-का","राजा-की","राजा-के","राजा-ने"]·ID["raja"]·IT["il-re"]·jav["Darius","Rehum","abdi-panjenengan","ing-ngriku","kang","kang-ratu","kangge-mbangun","maringi","mugi-dipun-intunaken","pantes","ratu","sae"]·KO["그-왕"]·PT["o-rei","rei"]·RU["царь","царю","царя"]·ES["el-rey","rey","rey.","rey:"]·SW["mfalme","wa-mfalme","ya-mfalme"]·TR["kral","krala","kralin"]·urd["بادشاہ","بادشاہ-نے","بادشاہ-پر","بادشاہ-کا","بادشاہ-کی","بادشاہ-کے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
מֶ֫לֶךְ178 n.m. king (general Sem.; v. BH);—מ׳ abs. Dn 2:10 + 2 times; cstr. 4:34 + 6 times; usually emph. מַלְכָּא Ezr 4:8 + 154 times, ה—ָ Dn 2:11; pl. מַלְכִין Ezr 4:15 + 9 times, ים—ִ 4:13 (Hebraism, Be-Ry M41 *); emph. מַלְכַיָּא Dn 2:44 + 2 times;—king Dn 2:4, 5 + 132 times Dn, Ezr 4:8, 11 + 42 times Ezr (מֶלֶךְ מַלְכַיָּא of Neb. Dn 2:37, of Artax. Ezr 7:12 [cf. Cooke71, 3, of Xerxes]; מַלְכִין Dn 7:17 = kingdoms, cf. מַלְכוּ v 23).