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Lexicon :: Strong's H4428 - meleḵ

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מֶלֶךְ
Transliteration
meleḵ
Pronunciation
meh'-lek
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1199a

Strong’s Definitions

מֶלֶךְ melek, meh'-lek; from H4427; a king:—king, royal.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,523x

The KJV translates Strong's H4428 in the following manner: king (2,518x), royal (2x), Hammelech (1x), Malcham (1x), Moloch (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,523x
The KJV translates Strong's H4428 in the following manner: king (2,518x), royal (2x), Hammelech (1x), Malcham (1x), Moloch (1x).
  1. king

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מֶלֶךְ melek, meh'-lek; from H4427; a king:—king, royal.
STRONGS H4428: Abbreviations
I. מֶ֫לֶךְ 2513 noun masculine king (Late Hebrew id.; MI1, 5, 10, 18, 23 מלך; l4 המלכן; Phoenician מלך; Zinjirli מלך DHMSendsch. 60; Assyrian maliku, malku, prince (Assyrian šarru = king); Arabic bdb057301 king (original Hebrew *מַלִח inferred, LagBN 73 BaNB § 112 WMMAs. u. Europ. 76); Sabean מלכן Sab DenkmNo. 1; construct מלך, plural אמלך CISiv 37; compare Ethiopic bdb057302 God (and Nöl.c.); Aramaic bdb057303, מְלֵיךְ; Palmyrene מלך מלכא VogNo. 28; Nabataean מלכא EutNab. 1); — מ׳ absolute Genesis 14:7 + (insert also 2 Samuel 13:17 Greek Version of the LXX Th We Dr Kit Bu, and 2 Samuel 13:34 Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Kit Bu); in p. always מֶ֑לֶךְ Genesis 49:20 + 238 times (so also proper name in מֶלֶךְ -); construct Genesis 14:1 +; suffix מַלְכִּי 2 Samuel 19:4 (twice in verse) + 6 times, etc.; plural מְלָכִים Genesis 14:9 +; מְלָכִין Proverbs 31:3; construct מַלְכֵי Genesis 17:16 +; suffix מְלָכֶיהָ Isaiah 7:16 + 3 times; מַלְכֵיהֶם Deuteronomy 7:24 + 16 times, etc.; —
1. king: of Egypt Genesis 39:20f.; Exodus 1:8f.; Deuteronomy 11:3; 1 Kings 3:1; of Mesopotamia, Shinar, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, etc. Judges 3:8, 10; Genesis 14:1f.; 2 Kings 15:19, 20, 29; 2 Kings 17:3f.; 2 Kings 18:13f.; 2 Kings 24:1, 11f.; Ezra 1:1f.; Ezra 4:3f.; Esther 1:2 +, 1 Kings 11:18, 40; 1 Kings 14:25; 2 Kings 17:4f.; 2 Kings 23:29 +; of Canaan, Philistia, Edom, Moab, etc. (often of single city): Genesis 14:2f.; Genesis 14:18; Genesis 20:2; Genesis 26:1, 8; Genesis 36:31; Numbers 20:14; Numbers 21:1f.; Numbers 22:4, 10; Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 3:1f.; Joshua 2:2 (often in Joshua), Judges 1:7; Judges 5:19; Judges 8:5, 12; Judges 11:12f.; 2 Kings 3:4f. +; of Aram, Hamath, etc. 2 Samuel 8:3f.; 2 Samuel 8:9; 1 Kings 15:18; 1 Kings 20:1f.; 1 Kings 22:3; 2 Kings 5:1f.; 2 Kings 8:7f.; 2 Kings 8:29; 2 Kings 9:14, 15; 2 Kings 15:37; 2 Kings 16:5f. +; of Tyre, etc. 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:15; 1 Kings 9:11, 16 +, etc.; especially of Israel (undivided, and of both divisions) Genesis 36:31; Numbers 23:21; Numbers 24:7; Deuteronomy 17:14f.; Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1; Judges 21:25; 1 Samuel 2:10; 1 Samuel 8:5f.; 2 Samuel 2:4f.; 1 Kings 1:33, 34f. + very often; compare also Judges 9:5. — 2 Samuel 18:29b strike out הַמּ׳ We Klo Dr Kit Bu. Note that in early books המלך דוד is nearly always said; in late books usually המלך שׁלמה וגו׳) דוד; compare Aramaic כּוֺרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא, etc.
2. of Davidic king, as under divine protection, 1 Samuel 2:10 (|| מְשִׁיחוֺ), Psalm 2:6; Psalm 18:51; Psalm 89:19; Psalm 61:7, compare Psalm 99:4; so in (Messianic) prediction Hosea 3:5; Isaiah 32:1; Jeremiah 23:5; Ezekiel 37:22, 24; Zechariah 9:9.
4. in fable, king of trees Judges 9:8, 15 figurative of crocodile Job 41:26; אֵין לָאַרְבֶּה מ׳ Proverbs 30:27; of death, מֶלֶךְ בַּלָּהוֺת Job 18:14.
5. combinations are: —
a. הַגָּדוֺל הַמּ׳ 2 Kings 18:19, 28 = Isaiah 36:4, 13 (of Assyrian king: compare Assyrian šarru rabu); גָּדוֺל מ׳ Ecclesiastes 9:14 (indefinite); of י׳ Malachi 1:14, עַלכֿלאֿלהים ג׳ מ׳ Psalm 95:3; מ׳ עוֺלָם Jeremiah 10:10 (of י׳); מְלָכִים מ׳ Ezekiel 26:7 (king of Babylon)
b. יְחִי הַמֶּלֶךְ 1 Samuel 10:24; 2 Samuel 16:16 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 1:34, 39; 2 Kings 11:12; 2 Chronicles 23:11; מֶלֶךְ בירושׁלם Ecclesiastes 1:1, compare Eccl 15:26; 2 Samuel 5:2; 1 Kings 14:2; 1 Chronicles 29:25; 2 Samuel 2:11 (בחברון עלהֿיה מ׳) 1 Kings 11:37; 2 Chronicles 28:4; Ecclesiastes 1:12.
c. following a verb (one or two accusative) על שִׂים מ׳ Deuteronomy 17:14, 15 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 10:19; שִׂים לָנוּ מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:5; שִׂים לְמ׳ 1 Kings 10:9; לְ נָתַן מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:6; Hosea 13:10, 11; נָתַן עַל 1 Samuel 12:13; 2 Chronicles 2:10; Nehemiah 9:37; Nehemiah 13:26; הִמְלִיךְ לְמֶלֶךְ Judges 9:6; 1 Samuel 15:11; על הִמְלִיךְ מ׳ 1 Samuel 12:1; לְ הִמְלִיךְ מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:22; מָשַׁח מ׳ עַל Judges 9:8; מָשַׁח לְמ׳ 1 Kings 1:45; עַל מָשַׁךְ לְמ׳ Judges 9:15; 1 Samuel 15:1, 17; 2 Samuel 2:4; 2 Samuel 5:3, 12; 2 Samuel 12:7; 1 Kings 1:34; 1 Chronicles 11:3; 1 Chronicles 14:8; יִהְיֶה על מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:19; על בִּקֵּשׁ למ׳ 2 Samuel 3:17; הֵכִין לְמ׳ על 2 Samuel 5:12; 1 Chronicles 14:2; על הֵקִים מ׳ 1 Kings 14:14; Deuteronomy 28:36; תַּחַת וגו׳ לְמ׳ יָשַׁב עַלכִּֿסֵּא י׳ 1 Chronicles 29:23, compare Proverbs 20:8; אלהיך לְי׳ נָתַן עַלכִּֿסֵּא לְמ׳ 2 Chronicles 9:8.
d. מַעֲדַנֵּימֶֿלךְ Genesis 49:20 royal dainties, figurative; מִשְׁתֵּה הַמּ׳ 1 Samuel 25:36 royal feast (in simile); אֶבֶן הַמּ׳ 2 Samuel 14:26 king's weight; יַדהַֿמּ׳ 1 Kings 10:13 royal bounty (in simile); גִּזֵּי הַמּ׳ Amos 7:1 king's mowings; מִקְדַּשׁ מ׳ Amos 7:13 royal sanctuary; עֲטֶרֶת מַלְכָּם 2 Samuel 12:30 crown of their king = 1 Chronicles 20:2 (but read מִלְכֹּם Greek Version of the LXX We Klo Dr Kit Kau — not Bu KitChr. Hpt); compare also בַּיִת, עֵמֶק, גַּן, שָׁוֵה, etc. — proper name אבימלך, אחימלך, אלימלך, מלך, נתן, מלך, עבד, see below אב, אח, etc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:1; 14:1; 14:2; 14:7; 14:9; 14:18; 17:16; 20:2; 26:1; 26:8; 36:31; 36:31; 39:20; 49:20; 49:20

Exodus

1:8

Numbers

20:14; 21:1; 22:4; 22:10; 23:21; 24:7

Deuteronomy

1:4; 3:1; 7:24; 11:3; 17:14; 17:14; 17:15; 28:36; 33:5

Joshua

2:2

Judges

1:7; 3:8; 3:10; 5:19; 8:5; 8:12; 9:5; 9:6; 9:8; 9:8; 9:15; 9:15; 11:12; 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25

1 Samuel

2:10; 2:10; 8:5; 8:5; 8:6; 8:19; 8:22; 10:19; 10:24; 12:1; 12:12; 12:13; 15:1; 15:11; 15:17; 25:36

2 Samuel

2:4; 2:4; 2:11; 3:17; 5:2; 5:3; 5:11; 5:12; 5:12; 8:3; 8:9; 12:7; 12:30; 13:17; 13:34; 14:26; 16:16; 18:29; 19:4

1 Kings

1:33; 1:34; 1:34; 1:34; 1:39; 1:45; 3:1; 5:15; 9:11; 9:16; 10:9; 10:13; 11:18; 11:37; 11:40; 14:2; 14:14; 14:25; 15:18; 20:1; 22:3

2 Kings

3:4; 5:1; 8:7; 8:29; 9:14; 9:15; 11:12; 15:19; 15:20; 15:29; 15:37; 16:5; 17:3; 17:4; 18:13; 18:19; 18:28; 23:29; 24:1; 24:11

1 Chronicles

11:3; 14:2; 14:8; 20:2; 29:23; 29:25

2 Chronicles

2:10; 9:8; 23:11; 28:4

Ezra

1:1; 4:3

Nehemiah

9:37; 13:26

Esther

1:2

Job

18:14; 41:26

Psalms

2:6; 5:3; 10:16; 24:7; 24:8; 24:9; 24:10; 29:10; 44:5; 47:3; 47:8; 48:3; 61:7; 68:25; 74:12; 84:4; 89:19; 95:3; 95:3; 98:6; 99:4; 145:1; 149:2

Proverbs

20:8; 30:27; 31:3

Ecclesiastes

1:1; 1:12; 9:14

Isaiah

7:16; 32:1; 36:4; 36:13; 41:21; 43:15; 44:6

Jeremiah

10:7; 10:10; 10:10; 23:5; 46:18; 48:15; 51:57

Ezekiel

26:7; 37:22; 37:24

Hosea

3:5; 13:10; 13:11

Amos

5:26; 7:1; 7:13

Zephaniah

3:15

Zechariah

9:9; 14:9; 14:16; 14:17

Malachi

1:14; 1:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4428 matches the Hebrew מֶלֶךְ (meleḵ),
which occurs 69 times in 60 verses in '1Ch' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ch 1:43–1Ch 28:1)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:43 - Now these are the kings H4428 that reigned in the land of Edom before any king H4428 reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:2 - The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king H4428 of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:23 - These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king H4428 for his work.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41 - And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king H4428 of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:6 - Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king H4428 of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:17 - All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king H4428 of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king H4428 of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:26 - And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king H4428 of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king H4428 of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 - So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings H4428 of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:18 - Who hitherto waited in the king's H4428 gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:2 - And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, H4428 thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:3 - Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king H4428 to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king H4428 over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:1 - Now Hiram king H4428 of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:2 - And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king H4428 over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:8 - And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king H4428 over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard of it, and went out against them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:29 - And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king H4428 David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:21 - He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings H4428 for their sakes,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:16 - And David the king H4428 came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:3 - And David smote Hadarezer king H4428 of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:5 - And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king H4428 of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:9 - Now when Tou king H4428 of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king H4428 of Zobah;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:10 - He sent Hadoram his son to king H4428 David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:11 - Them also king H4428 David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:17 - And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king. H4428
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:1 - Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king H4428 of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:5 - Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king H4428 said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:7 - So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king H4428 of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9 - And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings H4428 that were come were by themselves in the field.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1 - And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings H4428 go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:2 - And David took the crown of their king H4428 from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:3 - And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, H4428 are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:4 - Nevertheless the king's H4428 word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:6 - But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's H4428 word was abominable to Joab.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:23 - And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king H4428 do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:24 - And king H4428 David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:6 - And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, H4428 and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:31 - These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, H4428 and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:2 - Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king. H4428
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:5 - All these were the sons of Heman the king's H4428 seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:6 - All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's H4428 order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:26 - Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, H4428 and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:30 - And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king. H4428
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:32 - And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king H4428 David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king. H4428
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:1 - Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king H4428 in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:24 - Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king H4428 David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:25 - And over the king's H4428 treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:31 - And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king H4428 David's.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:32 - Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's H4428 sons:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:33 - And Ahithophel was the king's H4428 counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king's H4428 companion:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:34 - And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's H4428 army was Joab.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 - And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king H4428 by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, H4428 and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.

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