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:
Psalms 107:23: "to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;"
Proverbs 18:9: "He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster."
Proverbs 22:29: "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not"
Proverbs 24:27: "Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house."
Jeremiah 17:22: "day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath"
Jeremiah 17:24: "the sabbath day, to do no work"
Jeremiah 18:3: "house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels."
Jeremiah 48:10: "Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword"
Jeremiah 50:25: "of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land"
Ezekiel 15:3: "be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of"
Ezekiel 15:4: "of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?"
Ezekiel 15:5: "whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work,"
Ezekiel 15:5: "how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?"
Ezekiel 28:13: "the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day"
Daniel 8:27: "and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none"
Jonah 1:8: "for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest"
Haggai 1:14: "of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,"
