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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 277 times in 218 verses in '2Ch' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (2Ch 1:12–2Ch 12:10)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:12 - wisdom and knowledge have been granted to you. I will also give you riches, wealth, and honor, [fn]such as none of the kings H4428 who were before you has possessed, nor will those who will [fn]come after you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:14 -

Solomon amassed chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king H4428 in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:15 - The king H4428 made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamores in the [fn]lowland.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:16 - Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue; the king’s H4428 traders acquired them from Kue for a price.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:17 - They [fn]imported chariots from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver apiece, horses for 150 apiece, and [fn]by the same means they [fn]exported them to all the kings H4428 of the Hittites and the kings H4428 of Aram.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:3 -

Then Solomon sent word to [fn]Huram the king H4428 of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with my father David and sent him cedars to build him a house to live in, do it for me.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:11 -

Then Huram, king H4428 of Tyre, [fn]answered in a letter sent to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king H4428 over them.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:12 - Then Huram [fn]continued, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King H4428 David a wise son, [fn]endowed with discretion and understanding, who will build a house for the LORD and a [fn]royal palace for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:11 -

Huram also made the pails, the shovels, and the bowls. So Huram finished the work that he did for King H4428 Solomon in the house of God:

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:16 - The pails, the shovels, the forks, and all its utensils, Huram-abi made of polished bronze for King H4428 Solomon, for the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:17 - On the plain of the Jordan the king H4428 cast them in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:3 - All the men of Israel assembled themselves before the king H4428 at the feast, that is in the seventh month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:6 - And King H4428 Solomon and all the congregation of Israel who had assembled with him before the ark were sacrificing [fn]so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:3 -

Then the king H4428 turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:4 -

Then the king H4428 and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:5 - King H4428 Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king H4428 and all the people dedicated the house of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:6 - The priests stood at their posts, and the Levites also, with the musical instruments for the LORD, which King H4428 David had made for giving praise to the LORD—“for His faithfulness is everlasting”—whenever David gave praise through their [fn]ministry; the priests on the other side blew trumpets and all Israel was standing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:11 -

So Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king’s H4428 palace, and successfully completed everything that [fn]he had planned on doing in the house of the LORD and in his palace.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:10 - These were the chief [fn]officers of King H4428 Solomon, 250 who ruled over the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11 -

Then Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king H4428 of Israel, because [fn]the places where the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:15 - And they did not deviate from the commandment of the king H4428 to the priests and Levites in any matter or regarding the storehouses.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:18 - And by his servants Huram sent him ships and servants who knew the sea; and they went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and took from there [fn]450 talents of gold, and brought it to King H4428 Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:5 - Then she said to the king H4428, “It was a true [fn]story that I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:8 - “Blessed be the LORD your God who delighted in you, setting you on His throne as king H4428 for the LORD your God; because your God loved Israel, establishing them forever, He made you king H4428 over them, to carry out justice and righteousness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:9 - Then she gave the king H4428 [fn]120 talents of gold and a very great amount of balsam oil and precious stones; there had never been balsam oil like that which the queen of Sheba gave King H4428 Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - From the algum trees the king H4428 made steps to the house of the LORD and for the king’s H4428 palace, and lyres and harps for the singers; and nothing like them was seen before in the land of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:12 -

King H4428 Solomon gave the queen of Sheba her every desire, whatever she requested, besides gifts equal to what she had brought to the king H4428. Then she turned and went to her own land with her servants.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:14 - besides what the traders and merchants brought; and all the kings H4428 of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:15 - King H4428 Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold, [fn]using six hundred shekels of beaten gold on each large shield.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - He made three hundred shields of beaten gold, [fn]using three hundred shekels of gold on each shield; and the king H4428 put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:17 -

Moreover, the king H4428 made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - All King H4428 Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered [fn]valuable in the days of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:21 - For the king H4428 had ships which went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:22 -

So King H4428 Solomon became greater than all the kings H4428 of the earth in wealth and wisdom.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:23 - And all the kings H4428 of the earth were seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:25 -

Now Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king H4428 in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:26 - He was ruler over all the kings H4428 from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:27 - And the king H4428 made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the [fn]lowland.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:2 - When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard about it (he was in Egypt where he had fled from the presence of King H4428 Solomon), Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:6 -

And then King H4428 Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had [fn]served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:12 -

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king H4428 had [fn]directed, saying, “Return to me on the third day.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:13 - The king H4428 answered them harshly, and King H4428 Rehoboam ignored the advice of the elders.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:15 - So the king H4428 did not listen to the people, because it was a turn of events from God so that the LORD might establish His word, which He spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:16 -

When all Israel saw that the king H4428 had not listened to them, the people replied to the king H4428, saying,

“What share do we have in David?

We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.

Everyone to your tents, Israel!

Now look after your own house, David!”

So all Israel went away to their tents.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:18 - Then King H4428 Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, and the sons of Israel stoned him [fn]to death. And King H4428 Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:3 - “Tell Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king H4428 of Judah, and all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:2 - And it came about in King H4428 Rehoboam’s fifth year, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, that Shishak king H4428 of Egypt came up against Jerusalem
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:6 - So the princes of Israel and the king H4428 humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:9 -

So Shishak king H4428 of Egypt went up against Jerusalem, and he took the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s H4428 palace. He took everything; he even took the gold shields which Solomon had made.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:10 - Then King H4428 Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and committed them to the [fn]care of the commanders of the [fn]guards who guarded the entrance of the king’s H4428 house.

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