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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 372 times in 268 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (2Ki 1:3–2Ki 8:6)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:3 - But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king H4428 of Samaria and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - They said to him, “A man came up to meet us and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king H4428 who sent you and say to him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore [fn]you will not get down from the bed upon which you have lain, but you shall certainly die.’”’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:9 -

Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he went up to him, and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he said to him, “You man of God, the king H4428 says, ‘Come down.’”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:11 -

So the king again sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he said to him, “You man of God, this is what the king H4428 says: ‘Come down quickly!’”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:15 - And the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down with him to the king H4428.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:17 -

So Ahaziah died in accordance with the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And since he had no son, Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king H4428 of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:18 - Now as for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings H4428 of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:1 -

Now Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel at Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king H4428 of Judah, and he reigned for twelve years.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:4 -

Now Mesha the king H4428 of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he used to make tribute payments to the king H4428 of Israel of a hundred thousand lambs, and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5 - However, when King Ahab died, the king H4428 of Moab broke with the [fn]king H4428 of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:6 - So King H4428 Jehoram left Samaria for battle [fn]at that time and mustered all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:7 - Then he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat the king H4428 of Judah, saying, “The king H4428 of Moab has broken away from me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?” And he said, “I will go up. [fn]Consider me yours, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:9 -

So the king H4428 of Israel went with the king H4428 of Judah and the king H4428 of Edom, and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey. But there was no water for the army or for the cattle that [fn]followed them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:10 - Then the king H4428 of Israel said, “It is hopeless! For the LORD has called these three kings H4428 to hand them over to Moab!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:11 - But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?” And one of the king H4428 of Israel’s servants answered and said, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:12 - And Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the LORD is with him.” So the king H4428 of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king H4428 of Edom went down to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 -

Now Elisha said to the king H4428 of Israel, “[fn]What business do you have with me? Go to your father’s prophets and your mother’s prophets.” But the king H4428 of Israel said to him, “No, for the LORD has called these three kings H4428 together to hand them over to Moab.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:14 - Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD of armies lives, before whom I stand, if I did not respect Jehoshaphat the king H4428 of Judah, I would not look at you nor see you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:21 -

Now all the Moabites heard that the kings H4428 had come up to fight against them. And all who were able to [fn]put on armor and older were summoned and they took their positions on the border.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - So they said, “This is blood; the kings H4428 must have fought each other, and they have killed one another. Now then, Moab, to the spoils!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:26 - When the king H4428 of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew swords, to break through to the king H4428 of Edom; but they could not.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:13 - And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have taken trouble for us with all this [fn]care; what can I do for you? [fn]Would you like me to speak for you to the king H4428 or to the commander of the army?’” But she [fn]answered, “I live among my own people.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:1 -

Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king H4428 of Aram, was a great man [fn]in the view of his master, and eminent, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant warrior, but afflicted with leprosy.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - Then the king H4428 of Aram said, “Go [fn]now, and I will send a letter to the king H4428 of Israel.” So he departed and took with him ten [fn]talents of silver, six thousand [fn]shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:6 -

And he brought the letter to the king H4428 of Israel, [fn]which said, “And now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - But when the king H4428 of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to keep alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But consider now, and see how he is seeking [fn]a quarrel against me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:8 -

Now it happened, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king H4428 of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king H4428, saying, “Why did you tear your clothes? Just have him come to me, and he shall learn that there is a prophet in Israel.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:8 -

Now the king H4428 of Aram was making war against Israel; and he consulted with his servants, saying, “In such and such a place shall be my camp.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:9 - But the man of God sent word to the king H4428 of Israel, saying, “Be careful that you do not pass this place, because the Arameans are coming down there.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:10 - And the king H4428 of Israel sent scouts to the place about which the man of God had told him; so he warned him, so that he was on his guard there, [fn]more than once or twice.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:11 -

Now the heart of the king H4428 of Aram was enraged over this matter; and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not tell me which of us is for the king H4428 of Israel?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - One of his servants said, “No, my lord, the king H4428; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king H4428 of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:21 - Then the king H4428 of Israel when he saw them, said to Elisha, “My father, shall I [fn]kill them? Shall I [fn]kill them?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:24 -

Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad the king H4428 of Aram gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26 - And as the king H4428 of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord the king H4428!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:28 - Then the king H4428 said to her, “What [fn]is on your mind?” And she said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - When the king H4428 heard the woman’s words, he tore his clothes—and he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth [fn]underneath on his [fn]body.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:2 - The royal H4428 officer on whose hand the king H4428 was leaning responded to the man of God and said, “Even if the LORD were to make [fn]windows in heaven, could this thing happen?” Then he said, “Behold, you are going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat [fn]any of it.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - For the Lord had made the army of the Arameans hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, that is, the sound of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king H4428 of Israel has hired the kings H4428 of the Hittites and the kings H4428 of the Egyptians against us, to [fn]attack us!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 -

Then they said to one another, “We are not doing the right thing. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent about it; if we wait until the morning light, punishment will [fn]overtake us. Now then come, let’s go and inform the king’s H4428 household.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:11 - And the gatekeepers called and announced it inside the king’s H4428 house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - Then the king H4428 got up in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; so they have left the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:14 - Therefore they took two chariots with horses, and the king H4428 sent them after the army of the Arameans, saying, “Go and see.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:15 - They went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away when they fled in a hurry. Then the messengers returned and informed the king H4428.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:17 - Now the king H4428 appointed the royal officer on whose hand he leaned [fn]to be in charge of the gate; but the people trampled on him at the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king H4428 came down to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:18 - So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king H4428, saying, “Two [fn]measures of barley for a shekel and a [fn]measure of fine flour for a shekel, will be sold about this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:3 - Then at the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went to [fn]appeal to the king H4428 for her house and for her field.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:4 - Now the king H4428 was speaking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please report to me all the great things that Elisha has done.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - And as he was reporting to the king H4428 how he had restored to life the one who was dead, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life [fn]appealed to the king H4428 for her house and for her field. And Gehazi said, “My lord the king H4428, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - When the king H4428 asked the woman, she told everything to him. So the king H4428 appointed an officer for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day that she left the land even until now.”

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