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STRONG'S HEBREW DICTIONARY

H4401

מַלְאָכִי
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Strong numbering source: James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).

Original wordמַלְאָכִי
TransliterationMalʼâkîy
Pronunciation guidemal-aw-kee'

QUICK LEXICAL ENTRY

Definition

xlit Malʻâkîy corrected to Malʼâkîy; from the same as מֲלְאָךְ; ministrative; Malaki, a prophet; Malachi.

BROWN–DRIVER–BRIGGS

Historical Hebrew lexicon

BDB supplies fuller lexical senses, grammatical notes, cognate material, and historical citations. A listed sense is not automatically the meaning of this word in every verse; context and grammar determine usage.

מַלְאָכִי appar. n.pr.m., Mal 1:1 Malachi, but in fact not historical name of author, nor pseudonym for Ezra; prob. a conjecture based on 3:1; so many moderns; see Dr Intr.

Source: Brown–Driver–Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Digital text and Strong-to-BDB mapping supplied by the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); underlying BDB text is public domain.

CONCORDANCE

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Source note

Strong numbering: James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).

BDB: Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Digital text and Strong-to-BDB mapping: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project. Open Scriptures data files are CC BY 4.0; the underlying BDB text is public domain.

Lexical relationships: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project LexicalIndex.xml (CC BY 4.0). Root/derivative relationships are displayed only when explicitly encoded in that source; The Bible Directory does not infer etymology from spelling.

Method: KJV wording is displayed as the site translation. Public Hebrew links use the reviewed CrossWire KJV source-span alignment; Hebrew surface forms and morphology come from STEP Bible TAHOT. Translation alignment, lexical identity, and morphology are stored as separate data layers. Ambiguous alignments remain plain text rather than being guessed.