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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Queen
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malkah "queen regnant" (; ; ); sheegal "the queen consort" (; -3); gebirah "powerful mistress," "the queen mother." Polygamy, lessened the influence of the kings wives, whose hold on his affections was shared by others and was at best precarious; but the queen mother enjoyed a fixed position of dignity. So Bathsheba (, etc.); Maachah (); , Jezebel; Jehoiachin's mother (; ; ).