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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 2,526 times in 1,919 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 12 / 39 (1Ki 10:12–1Ki 15:18)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12 - The king H4428 made from the almug trees supports for the house of the LORD and for the king’s H4428 house, and lyres and harps for the singers; such almug trees have not come in again, nor have they been seen to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:13 -

And King H4428 Solomon granted the queen of Sheba everything she desired, whatever she requested, besides what he gave her in proportion to [fn]his royal H4428 bounty. Then she [fn]departed and went to her own land [fn]together with her servants.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:15 - besides that from the traders, and the [fn]wares of the merchants and all the kings H4428 of the Arabs and the governors of the country.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:16 - King H4428 Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold, [fn]using six hundred shekels of gold on each large shield.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:17 - And he made three hundred small shields of beaten gold, [fn]using [fn]three minas of gold on each shield; and the king H4428 put them in the house of the timber of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:18 - Moreover, the king H4428 made a large throne of ivory and overlaid it with fine gold.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:21 - Now all King H4428 Solomon’s drinking utensils were of gold, and all the utensils of the house of the timber of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered as amounting to anything in the days of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:22 - For the king H4428 had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s ships; once every three years the ships of Tarshish would come carrying gold and silver, ivory, monkeys, and peacocks.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:23 -

So King H4428 Solomon became greater than all the kings H4428 of the earth in wealth and wisdom.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:26 -

Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he [fn]stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king H4428 in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:27 - And the king H4428 made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the [fn]lowland.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:28 - Also Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s H4428 merchants acquired them from Kue for a price.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:29 - A chariot [fn]was imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for 150; and [fn]by the same means they exported them to all the kings H4428 of the Hittites and to the kings H4428 of the Arameans.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 -

Now King H4428 Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:14 -

Then the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the [fn]royal H4428 line in Edom.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:18 - They set out from Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king H4428 of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him food and gave him land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:23 -

God also raised up another adversary against him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer, king H4428 of Zobah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26 -

Then Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also [fn]rebelled against the king H4428.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:27 - Now this was the reason why he [fn]rebelled against the king H4428: Solomon built the [fn]Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of his father David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:37 - ‘However I will take you, and you shall reign over all that [fn]you desire, and you shall be king H4428 over Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:40 - Solomon sought therefore to put Jeroboam to death; but Jeroboam set out and fled to Egypt to Shishak king H4428 of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:2 - Now when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard about this, [fn]he was living in Egypt (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King H4428 Solomon).
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:6 -

And King H4428 Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had [fn]served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:12 -

Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king H4428 had [fn]directed, saying, “Return to me on the third day.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:13 - And the king H4428 answered the people harshly, for he ignored the advice of the elders which they had [fn]given him,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:15 - So the king H4428 did not listen to the people; because it was [fn]a turn of events from the LORD, in order to establish His word which the LORD spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:16 -

When all Israel saw that the king H4428 had not listened to them, the people replied to the king H4428, saying,

“What share do we have in David?

We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse;

To your tents, Israel!

Now look after your own house, David!”

So Israel went away to their tents.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:18 - Then King H4428 Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him [fn]to death. And King H4428 Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:23 - “Tell Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king H4428 of Judah, and all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:27 - “If this people go up to [fn]offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, to Rehoboam king H4428 of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king H4428 of Judah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - So the king H4428 [fn]consulted, and he made two golden calves; and he said to [fn]the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - Now when the king H4428 heard the statement of the man of God which he cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” But his hand which he had stretched out toward him dried up, and he could not draw it back to himself.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:6 - And the king H4428 responded and said to the man of God, “Please [fn]appease the LORD your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God [fn]appeased the LORD, and the king’s H4428 hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:7 - Then the king H4428 said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a gift.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:8 - But the man of God said to the king H4428, “If you were to give me half your house, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 -

Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his [fn]sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king H4428, these also they reported to their father.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:2 - And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now arise and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said regarding me that I would be king H4428 over this people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:14 - “Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king H4428 over Israel who will eliminate the house of Jeroboam this day [fn]and from now on.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:19 -

Now as for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings H4428 of Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:25 -

Now it happened in the fifth year of King H4428 Rehoboam, that Shishak the king H4428 of Egypt marched against Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:26 - And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s H4428 house, and he took everything; he even took all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:27 - So King H4428 Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and entrusted them to the [fn]care of the commanders of the [fn]guard who guarded the doorway of the king’s H4428 house.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:28 - And it happened as often as the king H4428 entered the house of the LORD, that the [fn]guards would carry them and would bring them back into the [fn]guards’ room.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:29 -

Now as for the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings H4428 of Judah?

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:1 -

Now in the eighteenth year of King H4428 Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:7 -

Now as for the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings H4428 of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:9 -

So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king H4428 of Israel, Asa began to reign as king H4428 of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:16 -

Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king H4428 of Israel all their days.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:17 - Baasha king H4428 of Israel marched against Judah and [fn]fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king H4428 of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:18 - Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king’s H4428 house, and handed it over to his servants. And King H4428 Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king H4428 of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,

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