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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 305 times in 231 verses in '1Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (1Ki 1:1–1Ki 2:39)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:1 -

Now King H4428 David was old, [fn]advanced in age; and they covered him with garments, but he could not keep warm.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:2 - So his servants said to him, “Have them search for a young virgin for my lord the king H4428, and have her [fn]attend the king H4428 and become his nurse; and have her lie on your chest, so that my lord the king H4428 may keep warm.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:3 - So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king H4428.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:4 - The girl was very beautiful; and she became the king’s H4428 nurse and served him, but the king H4428 did not [fn]become intimate with her.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:9 -

Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened steers by the [fn]stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he invited all his brothers, the king’s H4428 sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s H4428 servants.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13 - “Go [fn]at once to King H4428 David and say to him, ‘Have you not, my lord the king H4428, sworn to your servant, saying, “Solomon your son certainly shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:14 - “Behold, while you are still there speaking with the king H4428, I will come in after you and confirm your words.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:15 -

So Bathsheba entered to the king H4428 in the bedroom. Now the king H4428 was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king H4428.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:16 - Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself [fn]before the king H4428. And the king H4428 said, “What [fn]is on your mind?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:18 - “But now, behold, Adonijah is king; and now, my lord the king H4428, you do not know it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:19 - “He has sacrificed oxen and fattened steers and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king H4428, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:20 - “And as for you, my lord the king H4428, the eyes of all Israel are upon you, to announce to them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king H4428 after him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:21 - “Otherwise it will come about, as soon as my lord the king H4428 [fn]lies down with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered [fn]offenders.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:22 -

And behold, while she was still speaking with the king H4428, Nathan the prophet came in.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:23 - They informed the king H4428, saying, “Nathan the prophet is here.” And when he came into the king’s presence, he prostrated himself [fn]before the king H4428 with his face to the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:24 - Then Nathan said, “My lord the king H4428, have you yourself said, ‘Adonijah shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:25 - “For he has gone down today and has sacrificed oxen and fattened steers and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king’s H4428 sons, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest, and behold, they are eating and drinking in his presence; and they say, ‘Long live King H4428 Adonijah!’
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:27 - “Has this thing been done by my lord the king H4428, and you have not let your [fn]servants know who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king H4428 after him?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:28 -

Then King H4428 David responded and said, “Summon Bathsheba to me.” And she came into the king’s H4428 presence and stood before the king H4428.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:29 - Then the king H4428 vowed and said, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:31 - Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated herself before the king H4428 and said, “May my lord King H4428 David live forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:32 -

Then King H4428 David said, “Summon to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” And they came into the king’s H4428 presence.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:33 - And the king H4428 said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:34 - “And have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king H4428 over Israel, and blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King H4428 Solomon!’
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:36 - Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king H4428 and said, “Amen! May the LORD, the God of my lord the king H4428, say the same.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:37 - “Just as the LORD has been with my lord the king H4428, so may He be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King H4428 David!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:38 -

So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King H4428 David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:39 - And Zadok the priest then took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King H4428 Solomon!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:43 - But Jonathan replied to Adonijah, “On the contrary! Our lord King H4428 David has made Solomon king H4428!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:44 - “The king H4428 has also sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites; and they have mounted him on the king’s H4428 mule.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:45 - “Furthermore, Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king H4428 in Gihon, and they have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city is going wild. This is the noise which you have heard.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47 - “Moreover, the king’s H4428 servants came to bless our lord King H4428 David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and his throne greater than your throne!’ And the king H4428 bowed himself on the bed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:48 - “The king H4428 has also said this: ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has granted one to sit on my throne today while my own eyes see it.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:51 - Now it was reported to Solomon, saying, “Behold, Adonijah is afraid of King H4428 Solomon, for behold, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King H4428 Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:53 - So King H4428 Solomon sent men, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and prostrated himself before King H4428 Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:17 - Then he said, “Please speak to Solomon the king H4428—for he will not [fn]refuse you—that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:18 - And Bathsheba said, “Very well; I will speak to the king H4428 for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:19 -

So Bathsheba went to King H4428 Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king H4428 stood to meet her, bowed to her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set up for the king’s H4428 mother, and she sat on his right.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:20 - Then she said, “I am making one small request of you; do not [fn]refuse me.” And the king H4428 said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not [fn]refuse you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:22 - But King H4428 Solomon answered and said to his mother, “And why are you requesting Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Request for him the kingdom as well—since he is my older brother—for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:23 - Then King H4428 Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, “May God do so to me and more so, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own [fn]life!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:25 - Then King H4428 Solomon sent the order by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he [fn]struck him so that he died.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 -

Then to Abiathar the priest the king H4428 said, “Go to Anathoth to your own field, for you [fn]deserve to die; but I will not put you to death at this [fn]time, because you carried the ark of the Lord [fn]GOD before my father David, and because you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:29 - And it was reported to King H4428 Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of the LORD, and [fn]was beside the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, [fn]execute him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:30 - So Benaiah came to the tent of the LORD and said to him, “This is what the king H4428 has said: ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, for I will die here.” So Benaiah brought back word to the king H4428, saying, “This is what Joab spoke, and so he answered me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:31 - And the king H4428 said to him, “Do just as he has spoken, and [fn]execute him and bury him, so that you may remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without [fn]justification.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:35 - And the king H4428 appointed Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in his place, and the king H4428 appointed Zadok the priest in place of Abiathar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:36 -

Now the king H4428 sent men and summoned Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, and do not leave there for any other place.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:38 - Shimei then said to the king H4428, “The word is good. Just as my lord the king H4428 has spoken, so your servant shall do.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for many days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:39 -

But it came about at the end of three years, that two of Shimei’s servants ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king H4428 of Gath. And others told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your servants are in Gath.”


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