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