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Lexicon :: Strong's H4430 - meleḵ

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מֶלֶךְ
Transliteration
meleḵ
Pronunciation
meh'-lek
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Corresponding to מֶלֶךְ (H4428)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2829a

Strong’s Definitions

מֶלֶךְ melek, meh'-lek; (Aramaic) corresponding to H4428; a king:—king, royal.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 180x

The KJV translates Strong's H4430 in the following manner: king (179x), royal (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 180x
The KJV translates Strong's H4430 in the following manner: king (179x), royal (1x).

  1. king

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מֶלֶךְ melek, meh'-lek; (Aramaic) corresponding to H4428; a king:—king, royal.
STRONGS H4430: Abbreviations

Biblical Aramaic

מֶ֫לֶךְ 178 noun masculine king (general Semitic; see Biblical Hebrew H4429); — מ׳ absolute Daniel 2:10 + 2 times; construct Daniel 4:34 [Daniel 4:37] + 6 times; usually emphatic מַלְכָּא Ezra 4:8 + 154 times, מַלְכָּ֤ה Daniel 2:11; plural מַלְכִין Ezra 4:15 + 9 times, לְמַלְכָּ֔א Ezra 4:13 (Hebraism, BeRy M41*); emphatic מַלְכַיָּא Daniel 2:44 + 2 times; — king Daniel 2:4, Daniel 2:5 + 132 times Daniel; Ezra 4:8, Ezra 4:11 + 42 times Ezra (מֶלָךְ מַלְכַיָּא of Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 2:37, of Artaxerxes Ezra 7:12 [compare Cooke71.3, of Xerxes]; מַלְכִין Daniel 7:17 —מַלְכוּ = kingdoms, compare Daniel 7:23).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

4:8; 4:8; 4:11; 4:13; 4:15; 7:12

Daniel

2:4; 2:5; 2:10; 2:10; 2:11; 2:37; 2:44; 7:17; 7:23

H4430

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4430 matches the Hebrew מֶלֶךְ (meleḵ),
which occurs 180 times in 131 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Ezr 4:8–Dan 2:24)

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:8 - Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:11 - This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto Artaxerxes the king: Thy servants the men beyond the River, and so forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:12 - Be it known unto the king, that the Jews that came up from thee are come to us unto Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13 - Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful unto the kings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:14 - Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not meet for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore have we sent and certified the king;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; for which cause was this city laid waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16 - We certify the king that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, by this means thou shalt have no portion beyond the River.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:17 - Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River: Peace, and so forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:19 - And I decreed, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:20 - There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:22 - And take heed that ye be not slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:23 - Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:24 - Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:6 - The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the king;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:7 - they sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: Unto Darius the king, all peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:8 - Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goeth on with diligence and prospereth in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:11 - And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and finished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:13 - But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:14 - And the gold and silver vessels also of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17 - Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure-house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1 - Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:3 - In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:4 - with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:8 - Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses be given with all diligence unto these men, that they be not hindered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:10 - that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:12 - and the God that hath caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples that shall put forth their hand to alter the same, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:13 - Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had sent, did accordingly with all diligence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:14 - And the elders of the Jews builded and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:15 - And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:12 - Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:14 - Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king and his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thy hand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:15 - and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:20 - And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure-house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:21 - And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers that are beyond the River, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all diligence,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:23 - Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:26 - And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him with all diligence, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:4 - Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5 - The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:7 - They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:8 - The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye would gain time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10 - The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king’s matter, forasmuch as no king, lord, or ruler, hath asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11 - And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is no other that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:12 - For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:14 - Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:15 - he answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Wherefore is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:16 - And Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:21 - And he changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth kings, and setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:23 - I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast now made known unto me what we desired of thee; for thou hast made known unto us the king’s matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:24 - Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus unto him: Destroy not the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show unto the king the interpretation.

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