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H4399 מְלָאכָה (mᵉlâʼkâh) mel-aw-kaw'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from the same as 4397; properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)

KJV Usage: business, + cattle, + industrious, occupation, (+ -pied), + officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מְלָאכָה (me.la.khah) — work. 1) occupation, work, business 1a) occupation, business 1b) property 1c) work (something done or made) 1d) workmanship 1e) service, use 1f) public business 1f1) political 1f2) religious

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun f · מַלְאָךְ · מַלְאָכוּת

Serve

work, task, craft, service = an activity involving a physical effort and usually requiring a certain amount of training or skill

GEN 2:2 · GEN 2:2 · GEN 2:3 · GEN 39:11 · EXO 12:16 · EXO 20:9 · EXO 20:10 · EXO 31:3 · EXO 31:5 · EXO 31:14 · EXO 31:15 · EXO 31:15 · EXO 35:2 · EXO 35:2 · EXO 35:21 · EXO 35:29 · EXO 35:31 · EXO 35:33 · EXO 35:35 · EXO 35:35 · EXO 36:1 · EXO 36:2 · EXO 36:3 · EXO 36:4 · EXO 36:4 · EXO 36:5 · EXO 36:6 · EXO 36:7 · EXO 36:7 · EXO 36:8 · EXO 38:24 · EXO 38:24 · EXO 39:43 · EXO 40:33 · LEV 7:24 · LEV 11:32 · LEV 13:48 · LEV 13:51 · LEV 16:29 · LEV 23:3 · LEV 23:3 · LEV 23:28 · LEV 23:30 · LEV 23:31 · NUM 4:3 · NUM 29:7 · DEU 5:13 · DEU 5:14 · DEU 16:8 · JDG 16:11 · 1SA 8:16 · 1KI 5:30 · 1KI 5:30 · 1KI 7:14 · 1KI 7:14 · 1KI 7:22 · 1KI 7:40 · 1KI 7:51 · 1KI 9:23 · 1KI 9:23 · 1KI 11:28 · 2KI 12:12 · 2KI 12:15 · 2KI 12:16 · 2KI 22:5 · 2KI 22:5 · 2KI 22:9 · 1CH 4:23 · 1CH 6:34 · 1CH 9:13 · 1CH 9:19 · 1CH 9:33 · 1CH 22:15 · 1CH 22:15 · 1CH 23:4 · 1CH 23:24 · 1CH 25:1 · 1CH 26:29 · 1CH 26:30 · 1CH 27:26 · 1CH 28:13 · 1CH 28:19 · 1CH 28:20 · 1CH 28:21 · 1CH 29:1 · 1CH 29:5 · 1CH 29:6 · 2CH 4:11 · 2CH 5:1 · 2CH 8:9 · 2CH 8:16 · 2CH 13:10 · 2CH 16:5 · 2CH 17:13 · 2CH 24:12 · 2CH 24:13 · 2CH 24:13 · 2CH 29:34 · 2CH 34:10 · 2CH 34:10 · 2CH 34:12 · 2CH 34:13 · 2CH 34:17 · EZR 2:69 · EZR 3:8 · EZR 3:9 · EZR 6:22 · EZR 10:13 · NEH 2:16 · NEH 4:5 · NEH 4:9 · NEH 4:10 · NEH 4:11 · NEH 4:13 · NEH 4:15 · NEH 4:16 · NEH 5:16 · NEH 5:16 · NEH 6:3 · NEH 6:3 · NEH 6:9 · NEH 6:16 · NEH 7:69 · NEH 7:70 · NEH 10:34 · NEH 11:12 · NEH 11:16 · NEH 11:22 · NEH 13:10 · NEH 13:30 · EST 3:9 · EST 9:3 · PSA 73:28 · PSA 107:23 · PRO 18:9 · PRO 22:29 · PRO 24:27 · JER 17:22 · JER 17:24 · JER 18:3 · JER 48:10 · JER 50:25 · EZK 15:3 · EZK 15:4 · EZK 15:5 · EZK 15:5 · EZK 28:13 · DAN 8:27 · JON 1:8 · HAG 1:14

Serve | ≈ עֲבֹודָה

Collocation: מְלֶאכֶת עֲבֹדָה

regular work = the activities people are involved in on a regular basis to make a living

EXO 35:24 · LEV 23:7 · LEV 23:8 · LEV 23:21 · LEV 23:25 · LEV 23:35 · LEV 23:36 · NUM 28:18 · NUM 28:25 · NUM 28:26 · NUM 29:1 · NUM 29:12 · NUM 29:35

Possess

property literally: work; hence: = goods or domestic animals that people have acquired as fruits of their work

GEN 33:14 · EXO 22:7 · EXO 22:10 · 1SA 15:9

1 EXO 36:7 NJPS "efforts" | RSV "stuff" NJB ESV "material" NIV "what ... had" = [1c] 2 2CH 17:13 NJPS NRSV REB | NIV NJB CEV ESV "supplies" RSV "stores" = [1c]

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מְלָאכָה 167 n.f. occupation, work occupation, business

property in which one is occupied

work as something done or made

workmanship

service, use

public business

base

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