מְלָאכָה

mᵉlâʼkâh · Hebrew · Strong's H4399 · 167 occurrences

The KJV renders 30 different Hebrew and Greek words as “thing”

What it means

properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)

from the same as H4397 (מֲלְאָךְ);

How the KJV renders it

business, occupation, thing, use, work, manship

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“thing”

also renders tìs (G5100), asthenḗs (G772), hágios (G40), mēdeís (G3367), tís (G5101), oudeís (G3762), lógos (G3056), prâgma (G4229), nomízō (G3543), ʼômer (H562), gâdôwl (H1419), dâbâr (H1697), zûwr (H2114), chay (H2416), ṭûwb (H2898), yârêʼ (H3372), kôl (H3605), kᵉlîy (H3627), mᵉʻaṭ (H4592), niddâh (H5079), nephesh (H5315), ʻôsheq (H6233), piggûwl (H6292), qôdesh (H6944), qâlal (H7043), qâsheh (H7186), raʻ (H7451), tahpukâh (H8419), tôwʻêbah (H8441)

“work”

also renders ergázomai (G2038), poiéō (G4160), ergasía (G2039), érgon (G2041), prâxis (G4234), katergázomai (G2716), energéō (G1754), lógos (G3056), prâgma (G4229), dâbâr (H1697), châshab (H2803), yᵉgîyaʻ (H3018), yêtser (H3336), maʻbâd (H4566), maʻbâd (H4567), maʻălâl (H4611), miphʻâl (H4659), miqshâh (H4749), ʻăbad (H5648), ʻăbôdâh (H5656), ʻăbîydâh (H5673), ʻălîylâh (H5949), ʻâsâh (H6213), pâlâʼ (H6381), pâʻal (H6466), pôʻal (H6467), pᵉʻullâh (H6468)

“use”

also renders gínomai (G1096), chrēsis (G5540), échō (G2192), metéchō (G3348), chreía (G5532), chráomai (G5530), héxis (G1838), dâbar (H1696), ʻăbôdâh (H5656), ʻâsâh (H6213)

“business”

also renders spoudḗ (G4710), chreía (G5532), prâgma (G4229), dâbâr (H1697), maʻăseh (H4639), ʻinyân (H6045)

“occupation”

also renders téchnē (G5078), maʻăseh (H4639)

“manship”

also renders maʻăseh (H4639)

Answers that weigh this word

Where it appears

167 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.

1 Chronicles 4:23 · HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms

These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.

1 Chronicles 6:49 · HNcfsc

But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

1 Chronicles 9:13 · HNcfsc

and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; they were very able men for the work of the service of God’s house.

1 Chronicles 9:19 · HNcfsc

Shallum was the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.

1 Chronicles 9:33 · HRd/Ncfsa

These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service, for they were employed in their work day and night.

1 Chronicles 22:15 · HNcfsa

There are also workmen with you in abundance—cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work;

1 Chronicles 23:4 HNcfsc1 Chronicles 23:24 HTd/Ncfsa1 Chronicles 25:1 HNcfsa1 Chronicles 26:29 HRd/Ncfsa1 Chronicles 26:30 HNcfsc1 Chronicles 27:26 HNcfsc1 Chronicles 28:13 HNcfsc1 Chronicles 28:19 HNcfpc1 Chronicles 28:20 HNcfsc1 Chronicles 28:21 HNcfsa1 Chronicles 29:1 HC/Td/Ncfsa1 Chronicles 29:5 HNcfsa1 Chronicles 29:6 HNcfsc1 Kings 5:16 HRd/Ncfsa1 Kings 7:14 HNcfsa1 Kings 7:22 HNcfsc1 Kings 7:40 HTd/Ncfsa1 Kings 7:51 HTd/Ncfsa1 Kings 9:23 HRd/Ncfsa1 Kings 11:28 HNcfsa1 Samuel 8:16 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms1 Samuel 15:9 HTd/Ncfsa2 Chronicles 4:11 HTd/Ncfsa2 Chronicles 5:1 HTd/Ncfsa2 Chronicles 8:9 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms2 Chronicles 8:16 HNcfsc2 Chronicles 13:10 HRd/Ncfsa2 Chronicles 16:5 HNcfsc/Sp3ms2 Chronicles 17:13 HC/Ncfsa2 Chronicles 24:12 HNcfsc2 Chronicles 24:13 HRd/Ncfsa2 Chronicles 29:34 HTd/Ncfsa2 Chronicles 34:10 HTd/Ncfsa2 Chronicles 34:12 HRd/Ncfsa2 Chronicles 34:13 HNcfsa2 Chronicles 34:17 HTd/Ncfsa2 Kings 12:11 HTd/Ncfsa2 Kings 12:14 HTd/Ncfsa2 Kings 12:15 HTd/Ncfsa2 Kings 22:5 HTd/Ncfsa2 Kings 22:9 HTd/NcfsaDaniel 8:27 HNcfscDeuteronomy 5:13 HNcfsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 5:14 HNcfsaDeuteronomy 16:8 HNcfsaEsther 3:9 HTd/NcfsaEsther 9:3 HTd/NcfsaExodus 12:16 HNcfsaExodus 20:9 HNcfsc/Sp2msExodus 20:10 HNcfsaExodus 22:8 HR/NcfscExodus 22:11 HR/NcfscExodus 31:3 HNcfsaExodus 31:5 HNcfsa

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.