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:
Leviticus 23:30: "it be that doeth any work in that same day,"
Leviticus 23:31: "Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all"
Leviticus 23:35: "ye shall do no servile work"
Leviticus 23:36: "and ye shall do no servile work"
Numbers 4:3: "all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation."
Numbers 28:18: "ye shall do no manner of servile work"
Numbers 28:25: "ye shall do no servile work."
Numbers 28:26: "ye shall do no servile work:"
Numbers 29:1: "ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets"
Numbers 29:7: "ye shall not do any work"
Numbers 29:12: "convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast"
Numbers 29:35: "ye shall do no servile work"
Deuteronomy 5:13: "thou shalt labor, and do all thy work:"
Deuteronomy 5:14: "in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant,"
Deuteronomy 16:8: "thy God: thou shalt do no work"
Judges 16:11: "with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be"
1 Samuel 8:16: "young men, and your asses, and put them to his work."
1 Samuel 15:9: "and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly."
1 Kings 5:16: "Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand"
1 Kings 5:16: "and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work."
1 Kings 7:14: "and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to"
1 Kings 7:14: "Solomon, and wrought all his work."
1 Kings 7:22: "of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished."
1 Kings 7:40: "of doing all the work that he made king Solomon"
1 Kings 7:51: "So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house"
1 Kings 9:23: "that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule"
1 Kings 9:23: "which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work."
1 Kings 11:28: "the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all"
2 Kings 12:11: "into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out"
2 Kings 12:14: "But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD."
2 Kings 12:15: "the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt"
2 Kings 22:5: "it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give"
2 Kings 22:5: "of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair"
2 Kings 22:9: "that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight"
1 Chronicles 4:23: "they dwelt with the king for his work."
1 Chronicles 6:49: "the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for"
1 Chronicles 9:13: "hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God."
1 Chronicles 9:19: "of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle:"
1 Chronicles 9:33: "were free: for they were employed in that work day and night."
1 Chronicles 22:15: " Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber,"
1 Chronicles 22:15: "and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work."
1 Chronicles 23:4: "twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD;"
1 Chronicles 23:24: "of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age"
1 Chronicles 25:1: "with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:"
1 Chronicles 26:29: "Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges."
1 Chronicles 26:30: "on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service"
1 Chronicles 27:26: "And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son"
1 Chronicles 28:13: "of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all"
1 Chronicles 28:19: "by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern."
1 Chronicles 28:20: "thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD."
