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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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:1 - Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech was afraid when he met David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one is with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - So David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has ordered me on some business, and said to me, ‘Do not let anyone know anything about the business on which I send you, or what I have commanded you.’ And I have directed my young men to such and such a place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:8 - And David said to Ahimelech, “Is there not here on hand a spear or a sword? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:9 - Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, “I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:11 - So the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob. And they all came to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:14 - So Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, who goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:16

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:20 - Now one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:6 - Now it happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, that he went down with an ephod in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6 - Then David answered, and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, 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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:7 - Then David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 24:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 24:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:6 - And the scribe, Shemaiah the son of Nethanel, one of the Levites, wrote them down before the king, the leaders, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and Levites, one father’s house taken for Eleazar and one for Ithamar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 24:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:31 - These also cast lots just as their brothers the sons of Aaron did, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and Levites. The chief fathers did just as their younger brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 52:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:1 - To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation[fn] of David when Doeg the Edomite went and told Saul, and said to him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The goodness of God endures continually.
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