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Lexicon :: Strong's H288 - 'ăḥîmeleḵ

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אֲחִימֶלֶךְ
Transliteration
'ăḥîmeleḵ
Pronunciation
akh-ee-meh'-lek
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אֲחִימֶלֶךְ ʼĂchîymelek, akh-ee-meh'-lek; from H251 and H4428; brother of (the) king; Achimelek, the name of an Israelite and of a Hittite:—Ahimelech.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H288 in the following manner: Ahimelech (17x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H288 in the following manner: Ahimelech (17x).

  1. Ahimelech = "my brother is king" or "brother of Melek"

    1. a priest murdered by Doeg at Saul's command, for supposedly assisting David

    2. a Hittite warrior under David

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲחִימֶלֶךְ ʼĂchîymelek, akh-ee-meh'-lek; from H251 and H4428; brother of (the) king; Achimelek, the name of an Israelite and of a Hittite:—Ahimelech.
STRONGS H288: Abbreviations
† אֲחִימֶ֫לֶךְ proper name, masculine (brother of Melek, Phoenician חמלך, חמלכת; see also H281 אחיהו).
1. priest in Saul's (David's) time 1 Samuel 21:2 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 21:3; 1 Samuel 21:9; 1 Samuel 22:14, 16 (אֲחִימֶ֑לֶךְ 1 Chronicles 24:31; Psalm 52:2＝(title); son of Ahitub 1 Samuel 22:9, 11 (compare 1 Samuel 22:12); 1 Samuel 22:20; father of Abiathar 1 Samuel 23:6; 1 Samuel 30:7; so also 2 Samuel 8:17 Syriac Version Ew We Th Dr; where MT בן־אביתר אחימ׳; whence id. wrongly 1 Chronicles 24:6, compare 1 Chronicles 24:4 (מִבְּנֵי אִיתָמָר אֲח׳) & 1 Chronicles 18:16 (where read אֲח׳ for אֲב׳).
2. a Hittite 1 Samuel 26:6.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

21:2; 21:3; 21:9; 22:9; 22:11; 22:12; 22:14; 22:16; 22:20; 23:6; 26:6; 30:7

2 Samuel

8:17

1 Chronicles

18:16; 24:4; 24:6; 24:31

Psalms

52:2

H288

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H288 matches the Hebrew אֲחִימֶלֶךְ ('ăḥîmeleḵ),
which occurs 17 times in 16 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech H288 the priest; and Ahimelech H288 came trembling to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one is with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - And David said to Ahimelech H288 the priest, “The king has commanded me with a matter and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the matter on which I am sending you and with which I have commanded you; and I have directed the young men to a certain place.’

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And David said to Ahimelech H288, “Now is there not a spear or a sword [fn]on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons in my hand because the king’s matter was urgent.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:9 - Then Doeg the Edomite, who was [fn]standing by the servants of Saul, said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech H288 the son of Ahitub.

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Then the king sent someone to summon Ahimelech H288 the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of them came to the king.

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Then Ahimelech H288 answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, even the king’s son-in-law, who [fn]is captain over your guard, and is honored in your house?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:16 - But the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech H288, you and all your father’s household!”

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But one son of Ahimelech H288 the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.

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Now it happened when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech H288 fled to David at Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

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Then David answered and said to Ahimelech H288 the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

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Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech H288, “Please bring the ephod near to me.” So Abiathar brought the ephod near to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:17 - and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech H288 the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was scribe;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:3 - And David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech H288 of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their assignments for their service.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:6 - Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel the scribe, from the Levites, wrote them down in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech H288 the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one father’s household taken for Eleazar and one taken for Ithamar.

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These also cast lots alongside their [fn]relatives the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech H288, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites—the head of fathers’ households alongside those of his younger brother.

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For the choir director. A [fn]Maskil of David. [fn]When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?

The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

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