H4399 · מְלָאכָה
mᵉlâʼkâh · mel-aw-kaw' · work, business, workmanship
H4399 (mᵉlâʼkâh, pronounced mel-aw-kaw') is the Hebrew word מְלָאכָה in Strong’s dictionary: properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry. It appears 167 times in 149 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- מְלָאכָה (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- mᵉlâʼkâh
- Pronunciation
- mel-aw-kaw'
- Derivation
- from the same as H4397 (מֲלְאָךְ);
- Definition
- properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
- Rendered in the KJV
- business, [phrase] cattle, [phrase] industrious, occupation, ([phrase] -pied), [phrase] officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
167 occurrences in 149 verses (142 with English words of their own, 25 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “the work” ×37
- “work” ×19
- “regular work” ×10
- “any work” ×5
- “for the work” ×3
- “his work” ×3
- “craft” ×2
- “in his work” ×2
By book
Genesis 4 · Exodus 27 · Leviticus 15 · Numbers 8 · Deuteronomy 3 · Judges 1 · 1 Samuel 2 · 1 Kings 7 · 2 Kings 5 · 1 Chronicles 19 · 2 Chronicles 14 · Ezra 5 · Nehemiah 20 · Esther 2 · Psalms 2 · Proverbs 3 · Jeremiah 5 · Ezekiel 4 · Daniel 1 · Jonah 1 · Haggai 1
First 30 of 149 verses
- Genesis 2:2
- Genesis 2:3
- Genesis 33:14
- Genesis 39:11
- Exodus 12:16
- Exodus 20:9
- Exodus 20:10
- Exodus 22:8
- Exodus 22:11
- Exodus 31:3
- Exodus 31:5
- Exodus 31:14
- Exodus 31:15
- Exodus 35:2
- Exodus 35:21
- Exodus 35:24
- Exodus 35:29
- Exodus 35:31
- Exodus 35:33
- Exodus 35:35
- Exodus 36:1
- Exodus 36:2
- Exodus 36:3
- Exodus 36:4
- Exodus 36:5
- Exodus 36:6
- Exodus 36:7
- Exodus 36:8
- Exodus 38:24
- Exodus 39:43
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H4399.