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Lexicon :: Strong's H40 - 'ăḇîmeleḵ

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אֲבִימֶלֶךְ
Transliteration
'ăḇîmeleḵ
Pronunciation
ab-ee-mel'-ek
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ʼĂbîymelek, ab-ee-mel'-ek; from H1 and H4428; father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites:—Abimelech.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x

The KJV translates Strong's H40 in the following manner: Abimelech (67x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x
The KJV translates Strong's H40 in the following manner: Abimelech (67x).

  1. Abimelech = "Melek is father" or "my father is king"

    1. king of Gerar in Abraham's time

    2. king of Gath in David's time; maybe title of Philistine kings

    3. son of Gideon by a concubine

    4. priest, son of Abiathar

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ʼĂbîymelek, ab-ee-mel'-ek; from H1 and H4428; father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites:—Abimelech.
STRONGS H40: Abbreviations
אֲבִימֶ֫לֶךְ proper name, masculine (Melek (= Malik, Molech) is father) — אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ Genesis 20:18 —
1. king of Gerar Genesis 20:2, 3, 4 +, Genesis 21:22, 25 (twice in verse) +, Genesis 26:1, 8 + (24 times Genesis).
† 2. king of Gath Psalm Genesis 34:1 error for אָכִישׁ, compare 1 Samuel 21:11f f; — a better known Philistine name substituted for a less known (Hup3). > Others (Thes Ol De MV) think a title of Philistine kings, compare Pharaoh.
3. son of Gideon Judges 8:31; Judges 9:1, 3, 4 +, Judges 10:1 (40 times Judges), 2 Samuel 11:21.
† 4. priest, son of Abiathar 1 Chronicles 18:16 error for אֲחִימֶלֶח which see (Sabean also proper name, feminine OsianderZMG 1865, 209).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

20:2; 20:3; 20:4; 20:18; 21:22; 21:25; 26:1; 26:8; 34:1

Judges

8:31; 9:1; 9:3; 9:4; 10:1

1 Samuel

21:11

2 Samuel

11:21

1 Chronicles

18:16

H40

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H40 matches the Hebrew אֲבִימֶלֶךְ ('ăḇîmeleḵ),
which occurs 67 times in 62 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 20:2–Jdg 9:45)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4 - Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8 - So Abimelech got up early in the morning and sent for all his servants and gave them word of these things, and they were full of fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:26 - But Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this thing; you never gave me word of it, and I had no knowledge of it till this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8 - And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:11 - And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:16 - And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:26 - And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31 - And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 - Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3 - So his mother's family said all this about him in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem: and their hearts were turned to Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:4 - And they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech got the support of a number of uncontrolled and good-for-nothing persons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:6 - And all the townsmen of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together and went and made Abimelech their king, by the oak of the pillar in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:16 - So now, if you have done truly and uprightly in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well to Jerubbaal and his house in reward for the work of his hands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:19 - If then you have done what is true and upright to Jerubbaal and his family this day, may you have joy in Abimelech, and may he have joy in you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20 - But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21 - Then Jotham straight away went in flight to Beer, and was living there for fear of his brother Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:22 - So Abimelech was chief over Israel for three years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:23 - And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the townsmen of Shechem; and the townsmen of Shechem were false to Abimelech;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24 - So that punishment for the violent attack made on the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, and for their blood, might come on Abimelech, their brother, who put them to death, and on the townsmen of Shechem who gave him their help in putting his brothers to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:25 - And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:27 - And they went out into their fields and got in the fruit of their vines, and when the grapes had been crushed, they made a holy feast and went into the house of their god, and over their food and drink they were cursing Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28 - And Gaal, the son of Ebed, said, Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we are to be his servants? Is it not right for the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his captain to be servants to the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem? But why are we to be his servants?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:29 - If only I had authority over this people! I would put Abimelech out of the way, and I would say to Abimelech, Make your army strong, and come out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31 - And he sent to Abimelech at Arumah, saying, See, Gaal, the son of Ebed, and his brothers have come to Shechem, and they are working up the town against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:34 - So Abimelech and the people with him got up by night, in four bands, to make a surprise attack on Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:35 - And Gaal, the son of Ebed, went out, and took his place at the doorway into the town; then Abimelech and his people got up from the place where they had been waiting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38 - Then Zebul said to him, Now where is your loud talk when you said, Who is Abimelech that we are to be his servants? Is this not the people whom you were rating so low? Go out now, and make war on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:39 - So Gaal went out at the head of the townsmen of Shechem and made war on Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:40 - And Abimelech went after him and he went in flight before him; and a great number were falling by the sword all the way up to the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41 - Then Abimelech went back to Arumah; and Zebul sent Gaal and his brothers away and would not let them go on living in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:42 - Now the day after, the people went out into the fields; and news of it came to Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:44 - And Abimelech with his band made a rush, and took up their position at the doorway into the town; and the other two bands made a rush on all those who were in the fields, and overcame them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.

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