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title: מַלְכוּ — royalty · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: מַלְכוּ (lemma:מַלְכוּ), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 57 times: royalty. BDB 1906: n.f. royalty, reign, kingdom. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַלְכוּ

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«מַלְכוּ» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **royalty** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 57 times · **Key:** lemma:מַלְכוּ · **BDB:** מַלְכוּ

### Glosses

the (18); kingdom (11); of (8)

### Meaning (OSHB)

royalty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. royalty, reign, kingdom [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5d5_5bc/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. royalty, reign, kingdom;—abs. מ׳ Dn 2:39 +; cstr. מַלְכוּת Ezr 4:24 +; emph. -תָא Dn 2:37 +, -תָה 2:44; sf. -תִי 4:15 +, -תֵהּ 3:33 +, -תָךְ 4:23 +; pl. cstr. מַלְכְוָת 7:27; emph. -וָתָא 2:44; 7:23;— royalty, kingship, kingly authority: Dn 4:23, 28, 33; הֵיכַל מ׳ v 26, בֵּית מ׳ v 27, כָּרְסֵא מ׳ 5:20. organized (world-) kingdom: 2:39(×2), 40, 41, 42, 44; 7:23(×2), 24, 27; מ׳ אֲנָשָׁא 4:14, 22, 29; 5:21; of specif. kings 2:37; 5:18, 28; 6:1; of God 3:33; 7:27 (both מ׳ עָלַם), 2:44(×2); 3:33; 4:31; 6:27; 7:27; of Mess. 7:14(×2); of saints 7:18(×2), 22, 27. realm (territorial) 4:15, 33b; 5:7, 11, 16, 29; 6:2(×2), 4, 8, 27; Ezr 7:13, 28; meton. Dn 6:5 = administration of realm. reign, time of reigning Dn 5:26; 6:29(×2); Ezr 4:24; 6:15.

### Jastrow 1903

מַלְכוּ

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** , v. מַלְכוּתָא

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 42 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַלְכוּ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5d5_5bc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 5:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.28/)

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פְּרֵ֑ס פְּרִיסַת֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ךְ וִיהִיבַ֖ת לְמָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃

*Word for word:* peres it.has.been.broken.in.two kingdom your and it.has.been.given to Medes and Persians

*JPS 1917:* PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'

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[Daniel 4:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.26/)

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לִקְצָ֥ת יַרְחִ֖ין תְּרֵֽי־עֲשַׂ֑ר עַל־הֵיכַ֧ל מַלְכוּתָ֛א דִּ֥י בָבֶ֖ל מְהַלֵּ֥ךְ הֲוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* to.\[the\] end of.months two.plus ten on the.palace of the.kingdom (diy).of Babylon walking.about he.was

*JPS 1917:* At the end of twelve months he was walking upon the royal palace of Babylon.

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