1. kingdom, reign, dominion — Feminine noun מַמְלָכוּת denoting a kingdom, reign, or royal dominion — the sphere or period of a king's rule. A variant form of מַמְלָכָה, it occurs in construct chains referring to specific kingdoms (e.g., 'kingdom of Persia' in 2 Chr 36:20,22; 'kingdom of Ahasuerus' in Est 1:2,14,20, 2:3,16,17; Dan 8:1, 11:17,21). Multilingual evidence shows semantic unity: eng kingdom/reign, spa reino/reinado, hin राज्य, arb مَمْلَكَة, kor 왕국, swa ufalme. The single 'reign-of' occurrence differs only in English nuance, not in Hebrew semantics. 9×
AR["مَملَكَةَ-","مَمْلَكةِ","مَمْلَكَةَ","مَمْلَكَةِ"]·ben["রাজত্ব","রাজত্বের","রাজ্য","রাজ্য-","রাজ্যের"]·DE["Koenigreiche","kingdom-von"]·EN["kingdom-of","reign-of"]·FR["de-royaumes","kingdom-de","royaume-de","royaumes"]·heb["ממלכות","ממלכת"]·HI["रअजय","राज्य","राज्य-के"]·ID["kerajaan","pemerintahan"]·IT["[ממלכות]","regno-di"]·jav["karajan","karaton","kraton","kraton-ipun"]·KO["왕국","왕국-을","왕국을","왕국을-","의-왕국의"]·PT["reinado-de-","reino-de"]·RU["царства","царство","царствования"]·ES["reinado-de","reino-de"]·SW["ufalme","ufalme-wa","ya-ufalme-wa"]·TR["krallığı","krallığını","krallığının"]·urd["بادشاہی","سلطنت"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [מַמְלָכוּת] n.f. kingdom, dominion, reign (on form cf. We 1 S 15:28 Drad loc. id.);—cstr. מַמְלְכוּת Jos 13:12 + 8 times; 1. kingdom of Og Jos 13:12, 30, 31; of Sihon v 21, 27. 2. dominion, royal power c. קָרַע מֵעַל (subj. י׳) 1 S 15:28; c. הֵשִׁיב לְ (hum. subj.) 2 S 16:3; c. הִשְׁבִּית Ho 1:4. 3. reign בְּרֵאשִׁית מַמ׳ Je 26:1 (cf. מַמְלָכָה 3, מַלְכוּת 2).