Strong's Definition
from 4427; a queen
KJV Usage: queen
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מְלֶ֫כֶת (me.le.khet) — queen. queen
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f · מלך
Names of Deities
Collocation: מְלֶכֶת הַשָּׁמַיִם
Queen of Heaven literally: Queen of Heaven; hence: = epithet of a female deity, possibly to be identified with Ishtar or Ashtoreth; ► worshipped by the Israelites The "Queen of Heaven" in Jeremiah is the mother godess. cf. versiones: LXX, Vg, Aq, Sym, Th. A likely identification of the title with the West Semitic Ashtoreth or the Mesopotamian Ishtar is based on the cakes offered to the deity in Jer 7:18; 44:19 which may have been star-shaped. Both Ashtoreth and Ishtar are fertility goddesses identified with Venus, the morning and evening star. Both were offered cakes as part of their cult, though it is only Ishtar in whose image cakes were baked and whose cult held a particular appeal for women. Ishtar was known as the queen or lady of heaven. Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah is therefore a syncretistic deity, combining aspects of Ashtoreth and Ishtar.
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מְלֶ֫כֶת n.f. queen base