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Lexicon :: Strong's H4428 - meleḵ

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מֶלֶךְ
Transliteration
meleḵ
Pronunciation
meh'-lek
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1199a

Strong’s Definitions

מֶלֶךְ melek, meh'-lek; from H4427; a king:—king, royal.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,523x

The KJV translates Strong's H4428 in the following manner: king (2,518x), royal (2x), Hammelech (1x), Malcham (1x), Moloch (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,523x
The KJV translates Strong's H4428 in the following manner: king (2,518x), royal (2x), Hammelech (1x), Malcham (1x), Moloch (1x).
  1. king

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מֶלֶךְ melek, meh'-lek; from H4427; a king:—king, royal.
STRONGS H4428: Abbreviations
I. מֶ֫לֶךְ 2513 noun masculine king (Late Hebrew id.; MI1, 5, 10, 18, 23 מלך; l4 המלכן; Phoenician מלך; Zinjirli מלך DHMSendsch. 60; Assyrian maliku, malku, prince (Assyrian šarru = king); Arabic bdb057301 king (original Hebrew *מַלִח inferred, LagBN 73 BaNB § 112 WMMAs. u. Europ. 76); Sabean מלכן Sab DenkmNo. 1; construct מלך, plural אמלך CISiv 37; compare Ethiopic bdb057302 God (and Nöl.c.); Aramaic bdb057303, מְלֵיךְ; Palmyrene מלך מלכא VogNo. 28; Nabataean מלכא EutNab. 1); — מ׳ absolute Genesis 14:7 + (insert also 2 Samuel 13:17 Greek Version of the LXX Th We Dr Kit Bu, and 2 Samuel 13:34 Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Kit Bu); in p. always מֶ֑לֶךְ Genesis 49:20 + 238 times (so also proper name in מֶלֶךְ -); construct Genesis 14:1 +; suffix מַלְכִּי 2 Samuel 19:4 (twice in verse) + 6 times, etc.; plural מְלָכִים Genesis 14:9 +; מְלָכִין Proverbs 31:3; construct מַלְכֵי Genesis 17:16 +; suffix מְלָכֶיהָ Isaiah 7:16 + 3 times; מַלְכֵיהֶם Deuteronomy 7:24 + 16 times, etc.; —
1. king: of Egypt Genesis 39:20f.; Exodus 1:8f.; Deuteronomy 11:3; 1 Kings 3:1; of Mesopotamia, Shinar, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, etc. Judges 3:8, 10; Genesis 14:1f.; 2 Kings 15:19, 20, 29; 2 Kings 17:3f.; 2 Kings 18:13f.; 2 Kings 24:1, 11f.; Ezra 1:1f.; Ezra 4:3f.; Esther 1:2 +, 1 Kings 11:18, 40; 1 Kings 14:25; 2 Kings 17:4f.; 2 Kings 23:29 +; of Canaan, Philistia, Edom, Moab, etc. (often of single city): Genesis 14:2f.; Genesis 14:18; Genesis 20:2; Genesis 26:1, 8; Genesis 36:31; Numbers 20:14; Numbers 21:1f.; Numbers 22:4, 10; Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 3:1f.; Joshua 2:2 (often in Joshua), Judges 1:7; Judges 5:19; Judges 8:5, 12; Judges 11:12f.; 2 Kings 3:4f. +; of Aram, Hamath, etc. 2 Samuel 8:3f.; 2 Samuel 8:9; 1 Kings 15:18; 1 Kings 20:1f.; 1 Kings 22:3; 2 Kings 5:1f.; 2 Kings 8:7f.; 2 Kings 8:29; 2 Kings 9:14, 15; 2 Kings 15:37; 2 Kings 16:5f. +; of Tyre, etc. 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:15; 1 Kings 9:11, 16 +, etc.; especially of Israel (undivided, and of both divisions) Genesis 36:31; Numbers 23:21; Numbers 24:7; Deuteronomy 17:14f.; Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1; Judges 21:25; 1 Samuel 2:10; 1 Samuel 8:5f.; 2 Samuel 2:4f.; 1 Kings 1:33, 34f. + very often; compare also Judges 9:5. — 2 Samuel 18:29b strike out הַמּ׳ We Klo Dr Kit Bu. Note that in early books המלך דוד is nearly always said; in late books usually המלך שׁלמה וגו׳) דוד; compare Aramaic כּוֺרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא, etc.
2. of Davidic king, as under divine protection, 1 Samuel 2:10 (|| מְשִׁיחוֺ), Psalm 2:6; Psalm 18:51; Psalm 89:19; Psalm 61:7, compare Psalm 99:4; so in (Messianic) prediction Hosea 3:5; Isaiah 32:1; Jeremiah 23:5; Ezekiel 37:22, 24; Zechariah 9:9.
4. in fable, king of trees Judges 9:8, 15 figurative of crocodile Job 41:26; אֵין לָאַרְבֶּה מ׳ Proverbs 30:27; of death, מֶלֶךְ בַּלָּהוֺת Job 18:14.
5. combinations are: —
a. הַגָּדוֺל הַמּ׳ 2 Kings 18:19, 28 = Isaiah 36:4, 13 (of Assyrian king: compare Assyrian šarru rabu); גָּדוֺל מ׳ Ecclesiastes 9:14 (indefinite); of י׳ Malachi 1:14, עַלכֿלאֿלהים ג׳ מ׳ Psalm 95:3; מ׳ עוֺלָם Jeremiah 10:10 (of י׳); מְלָכִים מ׳ Ezekiel 26:7 (king of Babylon)
b. יְחִי הַמֶּלֶךְ 1 Samuel 10:24; 2 Samuel 16:16 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 1:34, 39; 2 Kings 11:12; 2 Chronicles 23:11; מֶלֶךְ בירושׁלם Ecclesiastes 1:1, compare Eccl 15:26; 2 Samuel 5:2; 1 Kings 14:2; 1 Chronicles 29:25; 2 Samuel 2:11 (בחברון עלהֿיה מ׳) 1 Kings 11:37; 2 Chronicles 28:4; Ecclesiastes 1:12.
c. following a verb (one or two accusative) על שִׂים מ׳ Deuteronomy 17:14, 15 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 10:19; שִׂים לָנוּ מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:5; שִׂים לְמ׳ 1 Kings 10:9; לְ נָתַן מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:6; Hosea 13:10, 11; נָתַן עַל 1 Samuel 12:13; 2 Chronicles 2:10; Nehemiah 9:37; Nehemiah 13:26; הִמְלִיךְ לְמֶלֶךְ Judges 9:6; 1 Samuel 15:11; על הִמְלִיךְ מ׳ 1 Samuel 12:1; לְ הִמְלִיךְ מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:22; מָשַׁח מ׳ עַל Judges 9:8; מָשַׁח לְמ׳ 1 Kings 1:45; עַל מָשַׁךְ לְמ׳ Judges 9:15; 1 Samuel 15:1, 17; 2 Samuel 2:4; 2 Samuel 5:3, 12; 2 Samuel 12:7; 1 Kings 1:34; 1 Chronicles 11:3; 1 Chronicles 14:8; יִהְיֶה על מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:19; על בִּקֵּשׁ למ׳ 2 Samuel 3:17; הֵכִין לְמ׳ על 2 Samuel 5:12; 1 Chronicles 14:2; על הֵקִים מ׳ 1 Kings 14:14; Deuteronomy 28:36; תַּחַת וגו׳ לְמ׳ יָשַׁב עַלכִּֿסֵּא י׳ 1 Chronicles 29:23, compare Proverbs 20:8; אלהיך לְי׳ נָתַן עַלכִּֿסֵּא לְמ׳ 2 Chronicles 9:8.
d. מַעֲדַנֵּימֶֿלךְ Genesis 49:20 royal dainties, figurative; מִשְׁתֵּה הַמּ׳ 1 Samuel 25:36 royal feast (in simile); אֶבֶן הַמּ׳ 2 Samuel 14:26 king's weight; יַדהַֿמּ׳ 1 Kings 10:13 royal bounty (in simile); גִּזֵּי הַמּ׳ Amos 7:1 king's mowings; מִקְדַּשׁ מ׳ Amos 7:13 royal sanctuary; עֲטֶרֶת מַלְכָּם 2 Samuel 12:30 crown of their king = 1 Chronicles 20:2 (but read מִלְכֹּם Greek Version of the LXX We Klo Dr Kit Kau — not Bu KitChr. Hpt); compare also בַּיִת, עֵמֶק, גַּן, שָׁוֵה, etc. — proper name אבימלך, אחימלך, אלימלך, מלך, נתן, מלך, עבד, see below אב, אח, etc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:1; 14:1; 14:2; 14:7; 14:9; 14:18; 17:16; 20:2; 26:1; 26:8; 36:31; 36:31; 39:20; 49:20; 49:20

Exodus

1:8

Numbers

20:14; 21:1; 22:4; 22:10; 23:21; 24:7

Deuteronomy

1:4; 3:1; 7:24; 11:3; 17:14; 17:14; 17:15; 28:36; 33:5

Joshua

2:2

Judges

1:7; 3:8; 3:10; 5:19; 8:5; 8:12; 9:5; 9:6; 9:8; 9:8; 9:15; 9:15; 11:12; 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25

1 Samuel

2:10; 2:10; 8:5; 8:5; 8:6; 8:19; 8:22; 10:19; 10:24; 12:1; 12:12; 12:13; 15:1; 15:11; 15:17; 25:36

2 Samuel

2:4; 2:4; 2:11; 3:17; 5:2; 5:3; 5:11; 5:12; 5:12; 8:3; 8:9; 12:7; 12:30; 13:17; 13:34; 14:26; 16:16; 18:29; 19:4

1 Kings

1:33; 1:34; 1:34; 1:34; 1:39; 1:45; 3:1; 5:15; 9:11; 9:16; 10:9; 10:13; 11:18; 11:37; 11:40; 14:2; 14:14; 14:25; 15:18; 20:1; 22:3

2 Kings

3:4; 5:1; 8:7; 8:29; 9:14; 9:15; 11:12; 15:19; 15:20; 15:29; 15:37; 16:5; 17:3; 17:4; 18:13; 18:19; 18:28; 23:29; 24:1; 24:11

1 Chronicles

11:3; 14:2; 14:8; 20:2; 29:23; 29:25

2 Chronicles

2:10; 9:8; 23:11; 28:4

Ezra

1:1; 4:3

Nehemiah

9:37; 13:26

Esther

1:2

Job

18:14; 41:26

Psalms

2:6; 5:3; 10:16; 24:7; 24:8; 24:9; 24:10; 29:10; 44:5; 47:3; 47:8; 48:3; 61:7; 68:25; 74:12; 84:4; 89:19; 95:3; 95:3; 98:6; 99:4; 145:1; 149:2

Proverbs

20:8; 30:27; 31:3

Ecclesiastes

1:1; 1:12; 9:14

Isaiah

7:16; 32:1; 36:4; 36:13; 41:21; 43:15; 44:6

Jeremiah

10:7; 10:10; 10:10; 23:5; 46:18; 48:15; 51:57

Ezekiel

26:7; 37:22; 37:24

Hosea

3:5; 13:10; 13:11

Amos

5:26; 7:1; 7:13

Zephaniah

3:15

Zechariah

9:9; 14:9; 14:16; 14:17

Malachi

1:14; 1:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4428 matches the Hebrew מֶלֶךְ (meleḵ),
which occurs 80 times in 71 verses in 'Isa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Isa 1:1–Isa 37:21)

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:1 -

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem, which he beheld in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings H4428 of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:1 -

In the year of King H4428 Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, with the train of His robe filling the temple.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:5 - Then I said,

“Woe is me, for I am ruined!

For I am a man of unclean lips,

And I live among a people of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the King H4428, Yahweh of hosts.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:1 -

Now it happened in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king H4428 of Judah, that Rezin the king H4428 of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king H4428 of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not [fn]conquer it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:6 - “Let us go up against Judah and [fn]terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in [fn]its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king H4428 in the midst of it,”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - “For before the boy will know to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings H4428 you dread will be forsaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:17 - “Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house days which have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah—the king H4428 of Assyria!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 -

In that day, the Lord will shave with a razorone hired from regions beyond the [fn]River (that is, the king H4428 of Assyria)—the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - for before the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king H4428 of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:7 -

Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the mighty and abundant waters of the [fn]River

The king H4428 of Assyria and all his glory;

And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21 - And they will pass through [fn]the land hard-pressed and hungry, and it will be that when they are hungry, they will be angry and curse [fn]their king H4428 and their God as they face upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:8 -

For it says, “Are not my princes [fn]all kings H4428?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:12 -

So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will [fn]punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king H4428 of Assyria and the pomp of his eyes which are raised high.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:4 - that you will take up this [fn]taunt against the king H4428 of Babylon, and say,

“How the taskmaster has ceased,

And how [fn]fury has ceased!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:9 -

“Sheol from beneath trembles excitedly over you to meet you when you come;

It wakens for you the [fn]spirits of the dead, all the [fn]leaders of the earth;

It raises all the kings H4428 of the nations from their thrones.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:18 -

“All the kings H4428 of the nations lie in glory,

Each in his own [fn]place.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:28 -

In the year that King H4428 Ahaz died this [fn]oracle came:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:4 -

“Moreover, I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel master,

And a [fn]strong king H4428 will rule over them,” declares the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11 -

The princes of [fn]Zoan are merely ignorant fools;

The counsel of Pharaoh’s wisest counselors has become [fn]senseless.

How can you men say to Pharaoh,

“I am a son of the wise, a son of the kings H4428 of old”?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:1 -

In the year that the [fn]commander came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king H4428 of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - so the king H4428 of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the [fn]shame of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:6 - “So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king H4428 of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:15 -

Now it will be in that day, that Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king H4428. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:21 -

So it will be in that day,

That Yahweh will punish the host of heights on high,

And the kings H4428 of the earth on earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:33 -

For [fn]Topheth has long been ready,

Indeed, it has been prepared for the king H4428.

He has made it deep and large,

[fn]A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;

The breath of Yahweh, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:1 -

Behold, a king H4428 will reign righteously

And princes will rule justly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:17 -

Your eyes will behold the King H4428 in His beauty;

They will see a far-distant land.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:22 -

For Yahweh is our judge,

Yahweh is our lawgiver,

Yahweh is our king H4428;

He will save us—

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 -

Now it happened in the fourteenth year of King H4428 Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king H4428 of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - And the king H4428 of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King H4428 Hezekiah with a heavy military force. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the [fn]fuller’s field.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:4 -

Then Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king H4428, the king H4428 of Assyria, “What is this trust that you have?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:6 - “Behold, you trust in the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his [fn]hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king H4428 of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:8 - “So now, [fn]come make a bargain with my master the king H4428 of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to give riders for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:13 -

Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean and said, “Hear the words of the great king H4428, the king H4428 of Assyria.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:14 - “Thus says the king H4428, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - and do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, this city will not be given into the hand of the king H4428 of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - ‘Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for thus says the king H4428 of Assyria, ‘[fn]Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree, and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:18 - Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king H4428 of Assyria?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:21 -

But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s H4428 commandment was, “Do not answer him.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:1 -

Now it happened that when King H4428 Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4 - ‘Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king H4428 of Assyria has sent to [fn]reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore, lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:5 -

So the servants of King H4428 Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:6 - And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king H4428 of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:8 -

Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that [fn]the king had set out from Lachish.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - Then he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king H4428 of [fn]Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” So he heard it and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:10 - “Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king H4428 of [fn]Judah, ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king H4428 of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:11 - ‘Behold, you have heard what the kings H4428 of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction. So will you be delivered?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:13 - ‘Where is the king H4428 of Hamath, the king H4428 of Arpad, the king H4428 of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:18 - “Truly, O Yahweh, the kings H4428 of Assyria have laid waste to all the countries and their lands
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:21 -

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king H4428 of Assyria,


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