מָלַךְ mâlak — to reign
Translated in the KJV as consult, × indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be queen, (begin to, make to) reign, rule, × surely.
a primitive root; to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel.
mâlak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 111Wayyiqtol 84Infinitive construct 65Imperfect (yiqtol) 22Imperative 6Participle (active) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Infinitive absolute 2Jussive 1
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 27Perfect (qatal) 9Infinitive construct 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (active) 1
And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;
And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 1
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›