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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 saw during the [fn]reigns 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, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:5 - Then I said,

“Woe to me, for I am ruined!

Because I am a man of unclean lips,

And I live among a people of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the King H4428, the LORD of armies.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:1 -

Now it came about 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’s go up against Judah and [fn]terrorize it, and take it for ourselves by assault and set up the son of Tabeel as king H4428 in the midst of it,”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - “For before the boy knows enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings H4428 you dread will be abandoned.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:17 - “The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judahthe days of the king H4428 of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 -

On that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates River (that is, with 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 spoils 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 strong and abundant waters of the Euphrates River,

That is, the king H4428 of Assyria and all his glory;

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21 - They will pass through [fn]the land dejected and hungry, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will become enraged and curse [fn]their king H4428 and their God as they face upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:8 -

For it says, “Are not my officers [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 arrogant pride of his eyes.”

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

“How the oppressor has ceased,

And how the [fn]onslaught has ceased!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:9 -

“Sheol below is excited about you, to meet you when you come;

It stirs the [fn]spirits of the dead for you, 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]tomb.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:28 -

In the year that King H4428 Ahaz died, this pronouncement came:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:4 -

“Furthermore, I will hand the Egyptians over to a cruel master,

And a [fn]mighty king H4428 will rule over them,” declares the Lord [fn]GOD of armies.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:11 -

The officials of [fn]Zoan are mere fools;

The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become [fn]stupid.

How can you say to Pharaoh,

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

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 Cush, 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 on that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be saved from the king H4428 of Assyria; and how are we ourselves to escape?’”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:15 -

Now on that day 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 prostitute:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:21 -

So it will happen on that day,

That the LORD will punish the rebellious [fn]angels of [fn]heaven 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 the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:1 -

Behold, a king H4428 will reign righteously,

And officials will rule justly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:17 -

Your eyes will see the King H4428 in His beauty;

They will see a distant land.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:22 -

For the LORD is our judge,

The LORD is our lawgiver,

The LORD is our king H4428;

He will save us—

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:1 -

Now in the fourteenth year of King H4428 Hezekiah, Sennacherib king H4428 of Assyria marched 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 large army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the road to the [fn]fuller’s field.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:4 -

And Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘This is what the great king H4428, the king H4428 of Assyria says: “What is this confidence that you have?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:6 - “Behold, you have relied on the staff of this broken reed, 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 rely on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:8 - “Now then, come make a wager with my master the king H4428 of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:13 -

Then Rabshakeh stood and called out 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 - “This is what the king H4428 says: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to save you;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:15 - and do not let Hezekiah lead you to rely on the LORD, saying, “The LORD will certainly save us. This city will not be handed over to the king H4428 of Assyria!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - ‘Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for this is what the king H4428 of Assyria says: ‘[fn]Surrender to me and come out to me, and eat, each one, of his vine and each of his fig tree, and each drink of the waters of his own cistern,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:18 - Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you, saying, “The LORD will save us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations saved his land from the hand of the king H4428 of Assyria?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:21 -

But they were silent and did not answer him so much as a word; for the king’s H4428 command was, “Do not answer him.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:1 -

Now when King H4428 Hezekiah heard the report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4 - ‘Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king H4428 of Assyria has sent to taunt the living God, and will avenge the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore, offer 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, “This is what you shall say to your master: ‘This is what the LORD says: “Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants 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 left Lachish.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - Now he heard them say regarding Tirhakah king H4428 of [fn]Cush, “He has come out to fight against you,” and when he heard it he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:10 - “This is what you shall say to Hezekiah king H4428 of [fn]Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, “Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king H4428 of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:11 - ‘Behold, you yourself have heard what the kings H4428 of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be saved?
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, LORD, the kings H4428 of Assyria have laid waste all the countries and their lands,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:21 -

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king H4428 of Assyria,


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