(Malʹluch) [from a root meaning “reign as king”; or, “king”].

1. A Merarite Levite and a forefather of the Levitical singer Ethan.​—1Ch 6:44-47.

2. One of the priests accompanying Zerubbabel when the Jews returned from Babylonian exile.​—Ne 12:1, 2, 7.

3. An Israelite “of the sons of Bani” among those who had accepted foreign wives but who sent them away in the days of Ezra.​—Ezr 10:29, 44.

 4. An Israelite “of the sons of Harim” among those who had taken foreign wives but who dismissed them in Ezra’s time.​—Ezr 10:31, 32, 44.

5. One of the priests, or a forefather of one, attesting by seal the “trustworthy arrangement” made in Nehemiah’s day.​—Ne 9:38–10:4.

6. An Israelite, one of the heads of the people, whose descendant, if not he himself, attested the “trustworthy arrangement” made in the time of Nehemiah.​—Ne 9:38; 10:1, 14, 27.