BIBLE NAMES REVEALED | QUEEN

1. Bible Names Revealed 

a) The Bible is an historic record of real people and places. Learn who's who, their relationships, and the meaning of their names.

2. Queen

a) No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the “queen of Sheba.” The wives of the kings of Israel are not so designated. In Psalms 45:9, the Hebrew for “queen” is not malkah, one actually ruling like the Queen of Sheba, but shegal, which simply means the king's wife.

b) In 1 Kings 11:19, Pharaoh's wife is called “the queen,” but the Hebrew word so rendered (g'birah is simply a title of honor, denoting a royal lady, used sometimes for “queen-mother” (1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chronicles 15:16). In Song of Songs 6:8, 9, the king's wives are styled “queens” (Hebrew: melakhoth).

c) In the New Testament we read of the “queen of the south”, i.e., Southern Arabia, Sheba (Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31) and the “queen of the Ethiopians” (Acts 8:27), Candace.