Milkah מִלְכָּה

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Milkah
מִלְכָּה
Transliterationmilkah
Strong's numberH4435 (H4435G, H4435H)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a woman
GlossMilcah
Occurrences11 in 10 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (6)

Milkah (Hebrew מִלְכָּה, Strong's H4435) is a name of a woman in the Old Testament, glossed “Milcah”. It occurs 11 times.

Definition

H4435G: Milcah

A woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.11.29;
daughter of: Haran (H2039);
sister of: Lot (H3876) and Iscah (H3252); married to Nahor (H5152H);
mother of: Uz (H5780H), Buz (H0938), Kemuel (H7055), Chesed (H3777), Hazo (H2375), Pildash (H6394), Jidlaph (H3044) and Bethuel (H1328A)
§ Milcah = "queen"
1) daughter of Haran and wife of Nahor, her uncle and Abraham's brother, to whom she bore 8 children
2) a daughter of Zelophehad and granddaughter of Manasseh

H4435H: Milcah

A woman of the tribe of Manasseh living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.26.33;
daughter of: Zelophehad (H6765);
sister of: Mahlah (H4244), Noah (H5270), Hoglah (H2295) and Tirzah (H8656)
§ Milcah = "queen"
1) daughter of Haran and wife of Nahor, her uncle and Abraham's brother, to whom she bore 8 children
2) a daughter of Zelophehad and granddaughter of Manasseh

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVmilcah (11)
BSBmilcah (10), both milcah (1)

Verses

Every verse with Milkah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Numbers

Joshua

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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