Genesis 36:31
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
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Revelation 20:4
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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מָלַךְ
mâlak · maw-lak'
160 times translated as this KJV form350 total Strong's occurrences
to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel
Strong's KJV usage: consult, × indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, × surely.
Strong's first: Genesis 36:31Strong's last: Jeremiah 52:1
Open full H4427 profile →βασιλεύω
basileúō · bas-il-yoo'-o
5 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
to rule (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--king, reign.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 5:14Strong's last: Revelation 20:4
Open full G936 profile →מָשַׁל
mâshal · maw-shal'
3 times translated as this KJV form81 total Strong's occurrences
to rule
Strong's KJV usage: (have, make to have) dominion, governor, × indeed, reign, (bear, cause to, have) rule(-ing, -r), have power.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 12:5Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 9:26
Open full H4910 profile →שׂוּר
sûwr · soor
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to vanquish; by implication, to rule (causatively, crown)
Strong's KJV usage: make princes, have power, reign. See 5493.
Strong's first: Judges 9:22Strong's last: Judges 9:22
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H4427
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
H4427
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
H4427
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
H4910
And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
H4427
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
H4427
And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
H4427
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
H4427
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
H4427
But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
H4427
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
H4427
And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
H4427
And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
H4427
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
H4427
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
H4427
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
H4427
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
H4427
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
H4427
And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
H4427
And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
H4427
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
H4427
And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
H4427
And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
H4427
Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
H4427
And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
H4427
So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
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reign
REIGN, verb intransitive rane. [Latin regno, a derivative of rego, regnum.]
1. To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to rule; to exercise government, as a king or emperor; or to hold the supreme power. George the third reigned over Great Britain more than fifty years.
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness. Isaiah 32:1.
2. To be predominant; to prevail.
Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer or autumn.
3. To rule; to have superior or uncontrolled dominion. Romans 6:12.
[This word is never applied to the exercise of supreme power by a legislative body or the executive administration, in the United States.]
REIGN, noun rane. [Latin regnum.]
1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty.
He who like a father held his reign
2. The time during which a king, queen or emperor possesses the supreme authority. The Spanish armada was equipped to invade England in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Magna Charta was obtained in the reign of king John.
3. Kingdom; dominion.
Saturn's sons received the threefold reign of heav'n, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.
4. Power; influence.
5. Prevalence.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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