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מַּמְלָכָה 'mamlakah' meaning 'Kingdom' Strong's 4467

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This is a thorough bible study about the meaning of the Hebrew word מַּמְלָכָה, mamlakah (Strong's 4467) translated 'Kingdom'. It gives every verse where the word "mamlakah" appears in the Old Testament. To obtain a true understanding of this word these scriptures need to be meditated on and notes made of their meaning in different contexts. This requires putting scriptures together where they seem to have a similar meaning, and then meditating even more. The truth will be revealed by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to guide us into all truth (John 16:13). Wherever this word mamlakah appears in the Hebrew, the translation of it is highlighted with bold and yellow. In Hebrew the suffixes and some prepositions are added to the basic word to enhance the meaning, and where this has been done the meaning of the suffix or preposition has been included in highlighted text. Every blessing be to those who seek the truth of God's word.

#1.3 Scriptures for מַּמְלָכָה 'mamlakah' meaning 'Kingdom' Strong's 4467

Genesis 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? And what have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.

Exodus 19:6 And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.

Numberes 32:33 And Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with its cities in the borders, even the cities of the country round about.

Deuteronomy 3:4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we did not take from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
3:21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you passed.
17:18 And it shall be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
17:20 That his heart is not lifted up above his brethren, and that he does not turn from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
28:25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

Joshua 10:2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
11:10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote its king with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.

1 Samuel 10:18 And said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of those who oppressed you:
13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly: you have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom upon Israel for ever.
13:14 But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has commanded him to be captain over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.
24:20 And now, behold, I know well that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
27:5 And David said to Achish, If I have now found grace in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?
28:17 And Yahweh has done to him, as he spoke by me: for Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David:

2 Samuel 3:10 To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
3:28 And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
5:12 And David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
7:12 And when your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, which shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
7:13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
7:16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established for ever before you: your throne shall be established for ever.

1 Kings 2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; who went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
4:21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
9:5 Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.
10:20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
11:11 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Inasmuch as this is done of you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely rend the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
11:13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to your son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take you ten pieces: for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you:
11:34 However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom shall return to the house of David:
14:8 And tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you: and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes;
18:10 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they said, He is not there: he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they did not find you.

2 Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed of the kingdom.
15:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king his father.
15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, O Yahweh God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

1 Chronicles 16:20 And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;
29:11 Thine, O Yahweh, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is yours: yours is the kingdom, O Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
29:30 With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

2 Chronicles 9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
11:1 And when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.
13:5 Ought you not to know that Yahweh God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
13:8 And now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
17:5 Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought presents to Jehoshaphat; and he had riches and honor in abundance.
17:10 And the fear of Yahweh fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
20:6 And said, O Yahweh God of our fathers, are not you God in heaven? And do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in your hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand you?
20:29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.
21:3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
21:4 Now when Jehoram had risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and various also of the princes of Israel.
22:9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hidden in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to retain the kingdom.
22:10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of Judah.
23:20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Yahweh: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants who had killed the king his father.
29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Yahweh.
32:15 Now therefore do not let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?
36:23 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh God of heaven given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God is with him, and let him go up.

Ezra 1:2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Nehemiah 9:22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and nations, and divided them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

Psalm 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
68:32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises to the Lord; Selah:
79:6 Pour out your wrath upon the heathen who have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon your name.
102:22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.
105:13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
135:11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:

Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on even for ever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will perform this.
10:10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images were more than of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: Yahweh of hosts musters the host of the battle.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
14:16 Those who see you shall narrowly look upon you, and consider, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, says Yahweh of hosts.
19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: Yahweh has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy its strongholds.
23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
37:16 O Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: you have made heaven and earth.
47:5 Sit you silent, and get into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Jeremiah 1:10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
1:15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
15:4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
18:7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it:
18:9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it:
24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
25:26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
28:8 The prophets that have been before me and before you of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them:
34:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all its cities, saying,
34:17 Therefore thus says Yahweh; You have not listened to me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
49:28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus says Yahweh; Arise, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
51:20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: for with you will I break in pieces the nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
51:27 Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars.

Lamentations 2:2 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and its princes.

Ezekiel 17:14 That the kingdom might be brought low, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
29:14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
29:15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:

Amos 6:2 Pass to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
7:13 But do not prophesy again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says Yahweh.

Micah 4:8 And you, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

Nahum 3:5 Behold, I am against you, says Yahweh of hosts; and I will lift your skirts upon your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait upon me, says Yahweh, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, are all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Haggai 2:22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

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