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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 67 times in 62 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 2 (Jdg 9:47–Psa 34:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:47 - And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:48 - Then Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an ax in his hand and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it and laid it on his shoulder; then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste and do as I have done.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - So each of the people likewise cut down his own bough and followed Abimelech, put them against the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire above them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:50 - Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he encamped against Thebez and took it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:52 - So Abimelech came as far as the tower and fought against it; and he drew near the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:53 - But a certain woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:55 - And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed, every man to his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:56 - Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:1 - After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the mountains of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21 - ‘Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth?[fn] Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?’—then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:16 - Zadok the son of Ahitub and Abimelech the son of Abiathar were the priests; Shavsha[fn] was the scribe;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:1 - A Psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

I will bless the LORD at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

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