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Lexicon :: Strong's H4428 - meleḵ

Aa
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 5 / 39 (1Sa 17:25–2Sa 3:21)

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:25 - And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely he is coming up to [fn]reproach Israel. And it will be that the king H4428 will enrich the man who strikes him down with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house [fn]free in Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:55 -

Now when Saul saw David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” And Abner said, “By your life, O king H4428, I do not know.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:56 - And the king H4428 said, “You inquire whose son the youth is.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:6 -

And it happened as they were coming, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King H4428 Saul, with tambourines, with gladness, and with [fn]musical instruments.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:18 - But David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be the king’s H4428 son-in-law?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:22 - Then Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David secretly, saying, ‘Behold, the king H4428 delights in you, and all his servants love you; so now, become the king’s H4428 son-in-law.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:23 - So Saul’s servants spoke these words in [fn]David’s hearing. But David said, “Is it trivial in your eyes to become the king’s H4428 son-in-law, since I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - Saul then said, “Thus you shall say to David, ‘The king H4428 does not desire any dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s H4428 enemies.’” Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:26 - Then his servants told David these words, and it was right in the eyes of David to become the king’s H4428 son-in-law. [fn]So before the days had expired,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:27 - David rose up and went, he and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king H4428, that he might become the king’s H4428 son-in-law. So Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:4 - Then Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Do not let the king H4428 sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his works have been very good for you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:5 - So David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit down to eat with the king H4428. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:24 -

So David hid in the field; and when the new moon came, the king H4428 sat down to eat food.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:25 - And the king H4428 sat on his seat as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan rose up, and Abner sat down by Saul’s side, but David’s place was missing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - and he said, ‘Please send me on my way, since our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. So now, if I have found favor in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king’s H4428 table.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king H4428 has commanded me with a matter and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the matter on which I am sending you and with which I have commanded you; and I have directed the young men to a certain place.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:8 -

And David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not a spear or a sword [fn]on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons in my hand because the king’s H4428 matter was urgent.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:10 -

Then David arose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish king H4428 of Gath.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:11 - But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David the king H4428 of the land? Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying,

‘Saul has struck his thousands,

And David his ten thousands’?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:12 -

And David took these words [fn]to heart and greatly feared Achish king H4428 of Gath.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:3 -

And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king H4428 of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:4 - Then he left them with the king H4428 of Moab; and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the fortress.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:11 -

Then the king H4428 sent someone to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of them came to the king H4428.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:14 -

Then Ahimelech answered the king H4428 and said, “And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, even the king’s H4428 son-in-law, who [fn]is captain over your guard, and is honored in your house?

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:15 - “Did I just begin to ask of God on his behalf today? Far be it from me! Do not let the king H4428 impute anything to his servant or to any of the household of my father, for your servant knows nothing small or great of this whole affair.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:16 - But the king H4428 said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s household!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:17 - And the king H4428 said to the [fn]guards who were standing by him, “Turn around and put the priests of Yahweh to death because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it in my ears.” But the servants of the king H4428 were not willing to send forth their hands to fall upon the priests of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:18 - Then the king H4428 said to Doeg, “You turn around and [fn]attack the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned around and [fn]attacked the priests, and he put to death that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:20 - “So now, O king H4428, according to all the desire of your soul to come down, come down here; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king’s H4428 hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:8 -

Now afterward David arose and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, “My lord the king H4428!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his [fn]face to the ground and prostrated himself.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:14 - “After whom has the king H4428 of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog, after a single flea?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 -

Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king H4428. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything small or great until the morning light.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:14 - And David called to the people and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Will you not answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered and said, “Who are you who calls to the king H4428?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - So David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? And who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not guarded your lord the king H4428? For one of the people came to destroy the king H4428 your lord.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:16 - “This thing that you have done is not good. As Yahweh lives, all of you [fn]must surely die because you did not keep watch over your lord, the anointed of Yahweh. So now, see where the king’s H4428 spear is and the jug of water that was at his head.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:17 -

Then Saul recognized David’s voice and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And David said, “It is my voice, my lord the king H4428.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:19 - “So now, please let my lord the king H4428 listen to the words of his servant. If Yahweh has incited you up against me, let Him [fn]accept an offering; but if it is [fn]men, cursed are they before Yahweh, for they have driven me out today so that I would have no attachment with the inheritance of Yahweh, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:20 - “So now, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king H4428 of Israel has come out to search for a single flea, just as one pursues a partridge in the mountains.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:22 - And David replied, “Behold the spear of the king H4428! Now let one of the young men come over and take it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:2 - So David arose and crossed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king H4428 of Gath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:6 - So Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings H4428 of Judah to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:13 - And the king H4428 said to her, “Do not be afraid; but what do you see?” And the woman said to Saul, “I see a [fn]divine being coming up out of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:3 - Then the commanders of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews doing here?” And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, “Is this not David, the servant of Saul the king H4428 of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him from the day he [fn]deserted to me to this day?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:8 - And David said to Achish, “But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day when I came before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king H4428?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:4 - Then the men of Judah came and there anointed David king H4428 over the house of Judah.

And they told David, saying, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:7 - “So now, let your hands be strong and be [fn]valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah has anointed me king H4428 over them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:11 - And the [fn]time that David was king H4428 in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:3 - and his second, Chileab, by Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king H4428 of Geshur;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:17 -

Now Abner had [fn]consultation with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past you were seeking for David to be king H4428 over you.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:21 - And Abner said to David, “Let me arise and go and gather all Israel to my lord the king H4428, that they may cut a covenant with you, and that you may be king over all that your soul desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

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