# H4399 מְלָאכָה

מְלָאכָה (mᵉlâʼkâh), Strong’s H4399: properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor) KJV…

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

KJV: business, [phrase] cattle, [phrase] industrious, occupation, ([phrase] -pied)…

Derived from [מֲלְאָךְ mălʼâk](https://besorah.bible/word/H4397) (a messenger)

Occurs 167 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מְלָאכָה 167 n.f. occupation, work
- 1 occupation, business
- 2 property in which one is occupied
- 3 work as something done or made
- 4 workmanship
- 5 service, use
- 6 public business

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=2) — On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he…
- [Genesis 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=3) — God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
- [Genesis 33:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=14) — Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that…
- [Genesis 39:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=11) — About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
- [Exodus 12:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=16) — In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work…
- [Exodus 20:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=9) — You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
- [Exodus 20:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=10) — but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your…
- [Exodus 22:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=7) — If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put…
- [Exodus 22:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=10) — the oath of the LORD shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall…
- [Exodus 31:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/31?v=3) — I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of…