Strong's #4399: mla'kah (pronounced mel-aw-kaw')
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):--business, + cattle, + industrious, occupation, (+ -pied), + officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
melâ'kâh
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
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from the same as H4397
Usage:
This word is used 167 times:
Genesis 2:2: "day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh"
Genesis 2:2: "on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."
Genesis 2:3: "it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created"
Genesis 33:14: "will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure,"
Genesis 39:11: "that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men"
Exodus 12:16: "convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every"
Exodus 20:9: "shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:"
Exodus 20:10: "in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant,"
Exodus 22:8: "to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbor's goods."
Exodus 22:11: "put his hand unto his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good."
Exodus 31:3: "and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,"
Exodus 31:5: "of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship."
Exodus 31:14: "it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off"
Exodus 31:15: "Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy"
Exodus 31:15: "to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death."
Exodus 35:2: "Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy"
Exodus 35:2: "to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death."
Exodus 35:21: "and they brought the LORD's offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all"
Exodus 35:24: "shittim wood for any work of the service, brought"
Exodus 35:29: "made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded"
Exodus 35:31: "in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;"
Exodus 35:33: "to make any manner of cunning work."
Exodus 35:35: "of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue,"
Exodus 35:35: "and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work."
Exodus 36:1: "to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all"
Exodus 36:2: "heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do"
Exodus 36:3: "which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make"
Exodus 36:4: "that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man"
Exodus 36:4: "of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they"
Exodus 36:5: "much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD"
Exodus 36:6: "man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people"
Exodus 36:7: " For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much."
Exodus 36:7: "they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much."
Exodus 36:8: "wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten"
Exodus 38:24: "All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold"
Exodus 38:24: "that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was"
Exodus 39:43: "did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD"
Exodus 40:33: "So Moses finished the work."
Leviticus 7:24: "of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat"
Leviticus 11:32: "or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put"
Leviticus 13:48: "in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;"
Leviticus 13:51: "or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague"
Leviticus 16:29: "your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth"
Leviticus 23:3: "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest,"
Leviticus 23:3: "convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD"
Leviticus 23:7: "ye shall do no servile work"
Leviticus 23:8: "ye shall do no servile work"
Leviticus 23:21: "convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute forever"
Leviticus 23:25: "Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD."
Leviticus 23:28: "And ye shall do no work in that same day: for"
