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:
1 Chronicles 28:21: "of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skillful man, for any manner"
1 Chronicles 29:1: "hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not"
1 Chronicles 29:5: "and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing"
1 Chronicles 29:6: "and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly,"
2 Chronicles 4:11: "and the shovels, and the basins. And Huram finished the work that"
2 Chronicles 5:1: "Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished:"
2 Chronicles 8:9: "make no servants for his work; but they were men of war,"
2 Chronicles 8:16: "Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house"
2 Chronicles 13:10: "are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:"
2 Chronicles 16:5: "building of Ramah, and let his work cease."
2 Chronicles 17:13: "And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men"
2 Chronicles 24:12: "gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired"
2 Chronicles 24:13: " So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set"
2 Chronicles 24:13: "So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set"
2 Chronicles 29:34: "the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves:"
2 Chronicles 34:10: "And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 34:10: "that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought"
2 Chronicles 34:12: "And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah,"
2 Chronicles 34:13: "and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites"
2 Chronicles 34:17: "of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen."
Ezra 2:69: "They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams"
Ezra 3:8: "from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work"
Ezra 3:9: "together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons"
Ezra 6:22: "unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel."
Ezra 10:13: "to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two:"
Nehemiah 2:16: "nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work."
Nehemiah 4:11: "in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease."
Nehemiah 4:15: "all of us to the wall, every one unto his work."
Nehemiah 4:16: "forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields,"
Nehemiah 4:17: "every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon."
Nehemiah 4:19: "and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated"
Nehemiah 4:21: "So we labored in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising"
Nehemiah 4:22: "that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labor on the day."
Nehemiah 5:16: "Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land:"
Nehemiah 5:16: "were gathered thither unto the work."
Nehemiah 6:3: "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why"
Nehemiah 6:3: "so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave"
Nehemiah 6:9: "saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now"
Nehemiah 6:16: "for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God."
Nehemiah 7:70: "And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure"
Nehemiah 7:71: "And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams"
Nehemiah 10:33: "to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God."
Nehemiah 11:12: "And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two:"
Nehemiah 11:16: "of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God."
Nehemiah 11:22: "Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God."
Nehemiah 13:10: "them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field."
Nehemiah 13:30: "the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;"
Esther 3:9: "of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's"
Esther 9:3: "of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped"
Psalms 73:28: "GOD, that I may declare all thy works."
