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Lexicon :: Strong's H40 - 'ăḇîmeleḵ

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אֲבִימֶלֶךְ
Transliteration
'ăḇîmeleḵ
Pronunciation
ab-ee-mel'-ek
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ʼĂbîymelek, ab-ee-mel'-ek; from H1 and H4428; father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites:—Abimelech.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x

The KJV translates Strong's H40 in the following manner: Abimelech (67x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x
The KJV translates Strong's H40 in the following manner: Abimelech (67x).

  1. Abimelech = "Melek is father" or "my father is king"

    1. king of Gerar in Abraham's time

    2. king of Gath in David's time; maybe title of Philistine kings

    3. son of Gideon by a concubine

    4. priest, son of Abiathar

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ʼĂbîymelek, ab-ee-mel'-ek; from H1 and H4428; father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites:—Abimelech.
STRONGS H40: Abbreviations
אֲבִימֶ֫לֶךְ proper name, masculine (Melek (= Malik, Molech) is father) — אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ Genesis 20:18 —
1. king of Gerar Genesis 20:2, 3, 4 +, Genesis 21:22, 25 (twice in verse) +, Genesis 26:1, 8 + (24 times Genesis).
† 2. king of Gath Psalm Genesis 34:1 error for אָכִישׁ, compare 1 Samuel 21:11f f; — a better known Philistine name substituted for a less known (Hup3). > Others (Thes Ol De MV) think a title of Philistine kings, compare Pharaoh.
3. son of Gideon Judges 8:31; Judges 9:1, 3, 4 +, Judges 10:1 (40 times Judges), 2 Samuel 11:21.
† 4. priest, son of Abiathar 1 Chronicles 18:16 error for אֲחִימֶלֶח which see (Sabean also proper name, feminine OsianderZMG 1865, 209).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

20:2; 20:3; 20:4; 20:18; 21:22; 21:25; 26:1; 26:8; 34:1

Judges

8:31; 9:1; 9:3; 9:4; 10:1

1 Samuel

21:11

2 Samuel

11:21

1 Chronicles

18:16

H40

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H40 matches the Hebrew אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ('ăḇîmeleḵ),
which occurs 67 times in 62 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 20:2–Jdg 9:45)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - Avraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Avimelekh king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But God came to Avimelekh in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4 - Now Avimelekh had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8 - Avimelekh rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Then Avimelekh called Avraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - Avimelekh said to Avraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Avimelekh took sheep and oxen, men-servants and women-servants, and gave them to Avraham, and restored Sarah, his wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - Avimelekh said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - Avraham prayed to God. God healed Avimelekh, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Avimelekh, because of Sarah, Avraham's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - It happened at that time, that Avimelekh and Pikhol the captain of his host spoke to Avraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - Avraham complained to Avimelekh because of a water well, which Avimelekh's servants had violently taken away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:26 - Avimelekh said, I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - Avraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Avimelekh. Those two made a covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - Avimelekh said to Avraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made a covenant at Be'er-Sheva. Avimelekh rose up with Pikhol, the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Pelishtim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Avraham. Yitzchak went to Avimelekh king of the Pelishtim, to Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8 - It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Avimelekh king of the Pelishtim looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Yitzchak was caressing Rivka, his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - Avimelekh called Yitzchak, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Yitzchak said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - Avimelekh said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:11 - Avimelekh charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:16 - Avimelekh said to Yitzchak, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:26 - Then Avimelekh went to him from Gerar, and Achuzzat his friend, and Pikhol the captain of his host.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31 - His concubine who was in Shekhem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 - Avimelekh the son of Yerubba`al went to Shekhem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3 - His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shekhem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Avimelekh; for they said, He is our brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:4 - They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Ba`al-Berit, with which Avimelekh hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:6 - All the men of Shekhem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Avimelekh king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shekhem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:16 - Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Avimelekh king, and if you have dealt well with Yerubba`al and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - and you are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Avimelekh, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shekhem, because he is your brother);

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:19 - if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Yerubba`al and with his house this day, then rejoice you in Avimelekh, and let him also rejoice in you:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20 - but if not, let fire come out from Avimelekh, and devour the men of Shekhem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shekhem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21 - Yotam ran away, and fled, and went to Be'er, and lived there, for fear of Avimelekh his brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:22 - Avimelekh was prince over Yisra'el three years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:23 - God sent an evil spirit between Avimelekh and the men of Shekhem; and the men of Shekhem dealt treacherously with Avimelekh:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24 - that the violence done to the seventy sons of Yerubba`al might come, and that their blood might be laid on Avimelekh their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shekhem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:25 - The men of Shekhem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:27 - They went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trod the grapes, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28 - Ga`al the son of `Eved said, Who is Avimelekh, and who is Shekhem, that we should serve him? Isn't he the son of Yerubba`al? and Zevul his officer? serve you the men of Hamor the father of Shekhem: but why should we serve him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:29 - Would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Avimelekh. He said to Avimelekh, Increase your army, and come out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31 - He sent messengers to Avimelekh craftily, saying, Behold, Ga`al the son of `Eved and his brothers are come to Shekhem; and, behold, they constrain the city to take part against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:34 - Avimelekh rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shekhem in four companies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:35 - Ga`al the son of `Eved went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and Avimelekh rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38 - Then said Zevul to him, Where is now your mouth, that you said, Who is Avimelekh, that we should serve him? is not this the people that you have despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:39 - Ga`al went out before the men of Shekhem, and fought with Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:40 - Avimelekh chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41 - Avimelekh lived at Arumah: and Zevul drove out Ga`al and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shekhem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:42 - It happened on the next day, that the people went out into the field; and they told Avimelekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:44 - Avimelekh, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - Avimelekh fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

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