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Lexicon :: Strong's H40 - 'ăḇîmeleḵ

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אֲבִימֶלֶךְ
Transliteration
'ăḇîmeleḵ
Pronunciation
ab-ee-mel'-ek
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ʼĂbîymelek, ab-ee-mel'-ek; from H1 and H4428; father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites:—Abimelech.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x

The KJV translates Strong's H40 in the following manner: Abimelech (67x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x
The KJV translates Strong's H40 in the following manner: Abimelech (67x).

  1. Abimelech = "Melek is father" or "my father is king"

    1. king of Gerar in Abraham's time

    2. king of Gath in David's time; maybe title of Philistine kings

    3. son of Gideon by a concubine

    4. priest, son of Abiathar

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ʼĂbîymelek, ab-ee-mel'-ek; from H1 and H4428; father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites:—Abimelech.
STRONGS H40: Abbreviations
אֲבִימֶ֫לֶךְ proper name, masculine (Melek (= Malik, Molech) is father) — אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ Genesis 20:18 —
1. king of Gerar Genesis 20:2, 3, 4 +, Genesis 21:22, 25 (twice in verse) +, Genesis 26:1, 8 + (24 times Genesis).
† 2. king of Gath Psalm Genesis 34:1 error for אָכִישׁ, compare 1 Samuel 21:11f f; — a better known Philistine name substituted for a less known (Hup3). > Others (Thes Ol De MV) think a title of Philistine kings, compare Pharaoh.
3. son of Gideon Judges 8:31; Judges 9:1, 3, 4 +, Judges 10:1 (40 times Judges), 2 Samuel 11:21.
† 4. priest, son of Abiathar 1 Chronicles 18:16 error for אֲחִימֶלֶח which see (Sabean also proper name, feminine OsianderZMG 1865, 209).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

20:2; 20:3; 20:4; 20:18; 21:22; 21:25; 26:1; 26:8; 34:1

Judges

8:31; 9:1; 9:3; 9:4; 10:1

1 Samuel

21:11

2 Samuel

11:21

1 Chronicles

18:16

H40

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H40 matches the Hebrew אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ('ăḇîmeleḵ),
which occurs 24 times in 23 verses in 'Gen' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech H40 king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But God came to Abimelech H40 in a dream of the night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is [fn]married.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4 - (Now Abimelech H40 had not come near her.) Then he said, “Lord, will You kill a nation, even though righteous?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8 -

So Abimelech H40 arose early in the morning and called all his servants and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were greatly afraid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Then Abimelech H40 called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And [fn]how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me [fn]things that ought not to be done.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - And Abimelech H40 said to Abraham, “What have you seen, that you have done this thing?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Abimelech H40 then took sheep and oxen and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham and returned his wife Sarah to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - And Abimelech H40 said, “Behold, my land is before you; [fn]settle wherever it is good in your sight.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech H40 and his wife and his maidservants, so that they bore children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For Yahweh had utterly shut all the wombs of the household of Abimelech H40 because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 -

Now it happened at that time, that Abimelech H40 and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - But Abraham reproved Abimelech H40 about the well of water which the servants of Abimelech H40 had seized.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:26 - And Abimelech H40 said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor did I hear of it [fn]until today.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 -

So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech H40, and the two of them cut a covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - And Abimelech H40 said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they cut a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech H40 and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 -

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech H40 king of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8 - Now it happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech H40 king of the Philistines looked out through a window and saw, and behold, Isaac was [fn]caressing his wife Rebekah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - Then Abimelech H40 called Isaac and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife! How then did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - And Abimelech H40 said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:11 - So Abimelech H40 commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:16 - Then Abimelech H40 said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are [fn]too mighty for us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:26 -

Now Abimelech H40 came to him from Gerar [fn]with his adviser Ahuzzath and Phicol the commander of his army.

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