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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 2,526 times in 1,919 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 7 / 39 (2Sa 13:4–2Sa 15:17)

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:4 - He said to him, “O son of the king, H4428 why are you so depressed morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Then Amnon said to him, “I am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill; when the king H4428 came to see him, Amnon said to the king, H4428 “Please let my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:13 - “As for me, where could I [fn]get rid of my reproach? And as for you, you will be like one of the [fn]fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, H4428 for he will not withhold me from you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:18 - Now she had on a [fn]long-sleeved garment; for in this manner the virgin daughters of the king H4428 dressed themselves in robes. Then his attendant took her out and locked the door behind her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:21 - Now when King H4428 David heard of all these matters, he was very angry.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:23 - Now it came about after two full years that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s H4428 sons.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:24 - Absalom came to the king H4428 and said, “Behold now, your servant has sheepshearers; please let the king H4428 and his servants go with your servant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:25 - But the king H4428 said to Absalom, “No, my son, we should not all go, for we will be burdensome to you.” Although he [fn]urged him, he would not go, but blessed him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:26 - Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” And the king H4428 said to him, “Why should he go with you?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:27 - But when Absalom [fn]urged him, he let Amnon and all the king’s H4428 sons go with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:29 - The servants of Absalom did to Amnon just as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s H4428 sons arose and each mounted his mule and fled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:30 - Now it was while they were on the way that the report came to David, saying, “Absalom has struck down all the king’s H4428 sons, and not one of them is left.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:31 - Then the king H4428 arose, tore his clothes and lay on the ground; and all his servants were standing by with clothes torn.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32 - Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, [fn]responded, “Do not let my lord [fn]suppose they have put to death all the young men, the king’s H4428 sons, for Amnon alone is dead; because by the [fn]intent of Absalom this has been determined since the day that he violated his sister Tamar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:33 - “Now therefore, do not let my lord the king H4428 take the report to [fn]heart, namely, ‘all the king’s H4428 sons are dead,’ for only Amnon is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:35 - Jonadab said to the king, H4428 “Behold, the king’s H4428 sons have come; according to your servant’s word, so it happened.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:36 - As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s H4428 sons came and lifted their voices and wept; and also the king H4428 and all his servants wept [fn]very bitterly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:37 - Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, the king H4428 of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:39 - The heart of King H4428 David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:1 - Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s H4428 heart was inclined toward Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:3 - then go to the king H4428 and speak to him in this manner.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:4 - Now when the woman of Tekoa [fn]spoke to the king, H4428 she fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself and said, “Help, O king.” H4428
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - The king H4428 said to her, “What is your trouble?” And she [fn]answered, “Truly I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:8 - Then the king H4428 said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9 - The woman of Tekoa said to the king, H4428 “O my lord, the king, H4428 the iniquity is on me and my father’s house, but the king H4428 and his throne are guiltless.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:10 - So the king H4428 said, “Whoever speaks to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you anymore.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - Then she said, “Please let the king H4428 remember the LORD your God, so that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy, otherwise they will destroy my son.” And he said, “As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:12 - Then the woman said, “Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king.” H4428 And he said, “Speak.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - The woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king H4428 is as one who is guilty, in that the king H4428 does not bring back his banished one.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - “Now [fn]the reason I have come to speak this word to my lord the king H4428 is that the people have made me afraid; so your maidservant said, ‘Let me now speak to the king, H4428 perhaps the king H4428 will perform the [fn]request of his maidservant.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - ‘For the king H4428 will hear [fn]and deliver his maidservant from the [fn]hand of the man who would destroy [fn]both me and my son from the inheritance of God.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:17 - “Then your maidservant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king H4428 be [fn]comforting, for as the angel of God, so is my lord the king H4428 to discern good and evil. And may the LORD your God be with you.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:18 - Then the king H4428 answered and said to the woman, “Please do not hide anything from me that I am about to ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king H4428 please speak.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - So the king H4428 said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman replied, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, H4428 no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king H4428 has spoken. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who commanded me, and it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:21 - Then the king H4428 said to Joab, “Behold now, I will surely do this thing; go therefore, bring back the young man Absalom.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22 - Joab fell on his face to the ground, prostrated himself and blessed the king; H4428 then Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, O my lord, the king, H4428 in that the king H4428 has performed the [fn]request of his servant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:24 - However the king H4428 said, “Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face.” So Absalom turned to his own house and did not see the king’s H4428 face.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - When he cut the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he cut it, for it was heavy on him so he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at 200 shekels by the king’s H4428 weight.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:28 - Now Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and did not see the king’s H4428 face.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29 - Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, H4428 but he would not come to him. So he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32 - Absalom [fn]answered Joab, “Behold, I sent for you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, H4428 to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me still to be there.”’ Now therefore, let me see the king’s H4428 face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him put me to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:33 - So when Joab came to the king H4428 and told him, he called for Absalom. Thus he came to the king H4428 and prostrated himself on his face to the ground before the king, H4428 and the king H4428 kissed Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:2 - Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a suit to come to the king H4428 for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:3 - Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your [fn]claims are good and right, but no man listens to you on the part of the king.” H4428
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:6 - In this manner Absalom dealt with all Israel who came to the king H4428 for judgment; so Absalom stole away the hearts of the men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:7 - Now it came about at the end of [fn]forty years that Absalom said to the king, H4428 “Please let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:9 - The king H4428 said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:15 - Then the king’s H4428 servants said to the king, H4428 “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king H4428 chooses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:16 - So the king H4428 went out and all his household [fn]with him. But the king H4428 left ten concubines to keep the house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:17 - The king H4428 went out and all the people [fn]with him, and they stopped at the last house.

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