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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 BoxEzr 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:8 - Reum the chancellor, and Sampsa the scribe wrote an epistle against Jerusalem to king Arthasastha, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:11 - This is the purport of the letter, which they sent to him: Thy servants the men beyond the river to king Arthasastha.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:12 - Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up from thee to us have come to Jerusalem the rebellious and wicked city, which they are building, and its walls are set in order, and they have established the foundations of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13 - Now then be it known to the king, that if that city be built up, and its walls completed, thou shalt have no tribute, neither will they pay anything, and this injures kings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:14 - And it is not lawful for us to see the dishonour of the king: therefore have we sent and made known the matter to the king;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - that examination may be made in thy fathers' book of record; and thou shalt find, and thou shalt know that that city is rebellious, and does harm to kings and countries, and there are in the midst of it from very old time refuges for runaway slaves: therefore this city has been made desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16 - We therefore declare to the king, that, if that city be built, and its walls be set up, thou shalt not have peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:17 - Then the king sent to Reum the chancellor, and Sampsa the scribe, and the rest of their fellow-servants who dwelt in Samaria, and the rest beyond the river, saying, Peace; and he says,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:19 - And a decree has been made by me, and we have examined, and found that that city of old time exalts itself against kings, and that rebellions and desertions take place within it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:20 - And there were powerful kings in Jerusalem, and they ruled over all the country beyond the river, and abundant revenues and tribute were given to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:22 - See that ye be careful of the decree, not to be remiss concerning this matter, lest at any time destruction should abound to the harm of kings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:23 - Then the tribute-gatherer of king Arthasastha read the letter before Reum the chancellor, and Sampsa the scribe, and his fellow-servants: and they went in haste to Jerusalem and through Juda, and caused them to cease with horses and an armed force.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:24 - Then ceased the work of the house of God in Jerusalem, and it was at a stand until the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:6 - the copy of a letter, which Thanthanai, the governor of the part on this side the river, and Satharbuzanai, and their fellow-servants the Apharsachæans who were on this side of the river, sent to king Darius.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:7 - They sent an account to him, and thus it was written in it: All peace to king Darius.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:8 - Be it known to the king, that we went into the land of Judea, to the house of the great God; and it is building with choice stones, and they are laying timbers in the walls, and that work is prospering, and goes on favourably in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:11 - And they answered us thus, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which had been built many years before this, and a great king of Israel built it, and established it for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - But after that our fathers provoked the God of heaven, he gave them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the Chaldean, king of Babylon, and he destroyed this house, and carried the people captive to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:13 - And in the first year of king Cyrus, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be built.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:14 - And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nabuchodonosor brought out from the house that was in Jerusalem, and carried them into the temple of the king, them did king Cyrus bring out from the temple of the king, and gave them to Sabanasar the treasurer, who was over the treasure;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17 - And now, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the treasure-house of the king at Babylon, that thou mayest know if it be that a decree was made by king Cyrus to build that house of God that was in Jerusalem, and let the king send to us when he has learnt concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1 - Then Darius the king made a decree, and caused a search to be made in the record-offices, where the treasure is stored in Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:3 - In the first year of king Cyrus, Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the holy house of God that was in Jerusalem, saying, Let the house be built, and the place where they sacrifice the sacrifices. (Also he appointed its elevation, in height sixty cubits; its breadth was of sixty cubits.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:4 - And let there be three strong layers of stone, and one layer of timber; and the expense shall be paid out of the house of the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:8 - Also a decree has been made by me, if haply ye may do somewhat in concert with the elders of the Jews for the building of that house of God: to wit, out of the king's property, even the tributes beyond the river, let there be money to defray the expenses carefully granted to those men, so that they be not hindered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:12 - And may the God whose name dwells there, overthrow every king and people who shall stretch out his hand to alter or destroy the house of God which is in Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be diligently attended to.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:13 - Then Thanthanai the governor on this side beyond the river, Satharbuzanai, and his fellow-servants, according to that which king Darius sent, so they did diligently.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:14 - And the elders of the Jews and the Levites built, at the prophecy of Aggæus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo: and they built up, and finished it, by the decree of the God of Israel, and by the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Arthasastha, kings of the Persians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:15

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:12 - Arthasastha, king of kings, to Esdras, the scribe of the law of the Lord God of heaven, Let the order and the answer be accomplished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:14 - One has been sent from the king and the seven councillors, to visit Judea and Jerusalem, according to the law of their God that is in thine hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:15 - And for the house of the Lord there have been sent silver and gold, which the king and the councillors have freely given to the God of Israel, who dwells in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:20 - And as to the rest of the need of the house of thy God, thou shalt give from the king's treasure-houses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:21 - and from me, whatever it shall seem good to thee to give. I king Arthasastha have made a decree for all the treasuries that are in the country beyond the river, that whatever Esdras the priest and scribe of the God of heaven may ask you, it shall be done speedily,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:23 - Let whatever is in the decree of the God of heaven, be done: take heed lest any one make an attack on the house of the God of heaven, lest at any time there should be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:26 - And whosoever shall not do the law of God, and the law of the king readily, judgment shall be taken upon him, whether for death or for chastisement, or for a fine of his property, or casting into prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:4 - And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, saying, O king, live for ever: do thou tell the dream to thy servants, and we will declare the interpretation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5 - The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing has departed from me: if ye do not make known to me the dream and the interpretation, ye shall be destroyed, and your houses shall be spoiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:8 - And the king answered and said, I verily know that ye are trying to gain time, because ye see that the thing has gone from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10 - The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is no man upon the earth, who shall be able to make known the king's matter: forasmuch as no great king or ruler asks such a question of an enchanter, magician, or Chaldean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11 - For the question which the king asks is difficult, and there is no one else who shall answer it before the king, but the gods, whose dwelling is not with any flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:12 - Then the king in rage and anger commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:14 - Then Daniel answered with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the royal guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon; saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:15 - Chief magistrate of the king, wherefore has the peremptory command proceeded from the king? So Arioch made known the matter to Daniel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:16 - And Daniel intreated the king to give him time, and that he might thus declare to the king the interpretation of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:21 - And he changes times and seasons: he appoints kings, and removes them, giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to them that have understanding:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:23 - I give thanks to thee, and praise thee, O God of my fathers, for thou hast given me wisdom and power, and hast made known to me the things which we asked of thee; and thou hast made known to me the king's vision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:24 - And Daniel came to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon, but bring me in before the king, and I will declare the interpretation to the king.

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