Dict: easton - Queen

easton:

Queen @ 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 kjv@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. In kjvKings:11:19, Pharaoh's wife is called "the queen," but the Hebrew word so rendered (g'birah) is simply a title of honour, denoting a royal lady, used sometimes for "queen-mother" (kjvKings:15:13; 2 Chron. 15:16). In Cant. kjv@6:8-9, the king's wives are styled "queens" (Heb. melakhoth). In the New Testament we read of the "queen of the south", i.e., Southern Arabia, Sheba kjv@Matthew:12:42; kjv@Luke:11:31) and the "queen of the Ethiopians" kjv@Acts:8:27), Candace.

Queen of heaven @ kjv@Jeremiah:7:18 kjv@Jeremiah:44:17 kjv@Jeremiah:44:25), the moon, worshipped by the Assyrians as the receptive power in nature.