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מְלֶכֶת

me.le.khet

queen

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Strong’s H4446Noun, feminine5 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the queen of5

In the text

Jeremiah 7:18לִמְלֶכֶת
The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מְלֶ֫כֶת n.f. queen

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.