Meaning
Malluch mal'-uk (mallukh, "counsellor"):
(1) A Levite of the sons of Merari, ancestor of Ethan the singer (1Ch 6:44; compare 6:29).
(2) Son of Bani, among those who had foreign wives (Ezr 10:29). He is a descendant of Judah (1Ch 9:4) and is the Mamuchus of Esdras 9:30.
(3) A descendant of Harim, who married a foreign wife (Ezr 10:32).
(4) (5) Two who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Neh 10:4, Neh 10:27).
(6) Possibly the same as (4). One of the priests who returned with Zerubbabel (Ne 12:2). Doubtless the Melicu of verse 14's margin.
Henry Wallace
