Malchijah
mal.kiy.yah is used as a personal name for people named in genealogies, lists, messages, and building accounts.
The supplied occurrences use the term as a proper personal name: it appears in family lines, lists of named people, a message sent to Jeremiah, and reports of construction and public assembly.
Senses in use
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Personal name in genealogies, lists, and narratives · dominant
The supplied forms are tagged as Noun · Proper. In 1 Chronicles 9:12 the APB renders a genealogical chain ending with “Pashhur son of Malchijah”; in Jeremiah 21:1 it identifies Pashhur in the delegation sent to Jeremiah. In Nehemiah 3:14, the named person is identified as Rechab’s son and ruler of Beth-haccherem while strengthening the dung gate, and in Nehemiah 8:4 the APB includes the name among those standing beside Ezra.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the form as “Malchijah” within names, genealogies, and narrative identifications, as in Jeremiah 38:6 and Nehemiah 3:14. Its omission of the name in 1 Chronicles 6:25 does not establish a different use of the supplied proper-noun form.