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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 80 times in 71 verses in 'Isa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Isa 1:1–Isa 37:21)

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:1 - The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings H4428 of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:1 - In the year that king H4428 Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:5 - Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, H4428 the LORD of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:1 - And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king H4428 of Judah, that Rezin the king H4428 of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king H4428 of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:6 - Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king H4428 in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. H4428
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:17 - The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king H4428 of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 - In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king H4428 of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king H4428 of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:7 - Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king H4428 of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21 - And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king H4428 and their God, and look upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:8 - For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? H4428
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:12 - Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king H4428 of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:4 - That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king H4428 of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:9 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings H4428 of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:18 - All the kings H4428 of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:28 - In the year that king H4428 Ahaz died was this burden.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:4 - And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king H4428 shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11 - Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? H4428
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:1 - In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king H4428 of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - So shall the king H4428 of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king H4428 of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:15 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: H4428 after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:21 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings H4428 of the earth upon the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:33 - For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king H4428 it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:1 - Behold, a king H4428 shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:17 - Thine eyes shall see the king H4428 in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:22 - For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; H4428 he will save us.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 - Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king H4428 Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king H4428 of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - And the king H4428 of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king H4428 Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:4 - And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, H4428 the king H4428 of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:6 - Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king H4428 of Egypt to all that trust in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:8 - Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king H4428 of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:13 - Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, H4428 the king H4428 of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:14 - Thus saith the king, H4428 Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king H4428 of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king H4428 of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:18 - Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king H4428 of Assyria?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:21 - But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's H4428 commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:1 - And it came to pass, when king H4428 Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4 - It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king H4428 of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:5 - So the servants of king H4428 Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:6 - And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king H4428 of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:8 - So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king H4428 of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king H4428 of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:10 - Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king H4428 of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king H4428 of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:11 - Behold, thou hast heard what the kings H4428 of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:13 - Where is the king H4428 of Hamath, and the king H4428 of Arphad, and the king H4428 of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - Of a truth, LORD, the kings H4428 of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:21 - Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king H4428 of Assyria:

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