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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 19 / 39 (2Ki 22:12–1Ch 4:23)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:12 - Then the king H4428 commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, [fn]Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s H4428 servant saying,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:16 - thus says the LORD, “Behold, I bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king H4428 of Judah has read.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:18 - “But to the king H4428 of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD thus shall you say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel,Regarding the words which you have heard,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:20 - “Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.”’” So they brought back word to the king. H4428
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:1 - Then the king H4428 sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:2 - The king H4428 went up to the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:3 - The king H4428 stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people [fn]entered into the covenant.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - Then the king H4428 commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the [fn]doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, for [fn]Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings H4428 of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - He did away with the horses which the kings H4428 of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - The altars which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings H4428 of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king H4428 broke down; and he [fn]smashed them there and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - The high places which were before Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king H4428 of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king H4428 defiled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Josiah also removed all the houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings H4428 of Israel had made provoking [fn]the LORD; and he did to them [fn]just as he had done in Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:21 - Then the king H4428 commanded all the people saying, “Celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God as it is written in this book of the covenant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - Surely such a Passover had not been celebrated from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings H4428 of Israel and of the kings H4428 of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King H4428 Josiah, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:25 - Before him there was no king H4428 like him who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings H4428 of Judah?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - In his days Pharaoh Neco king H4428 of Egypt went up to the king H4428 of Assyria to the river Euphrates. And King H4428 Josiah went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he killed him at Megiddo.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1 - In his days Nebuchadnezzar king H4428 of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:5 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings H4428 of Judah?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - The king H4428 of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king H4428 of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king H4428 of Egypt from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 - At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king H4428 of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - And Nebuchadnezzar the king H4428 of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Jehoiachin the king H4428 of Judah went out to the king H4428 of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So the king H4428 of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:13 - He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s H4428 house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king H4428 of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king’s H4428 mother and the king’s H4428 wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - All the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these the king H4428 of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17 - Then the king H4428 of Babylon made [fn]his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king H4428 of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 - Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king H4428 of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around [fn]it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:2 - So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King H4428 Zedekiah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king’s H4428 garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And [fn]they went by way of the Arabah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:5 - But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king H4428 and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his army was scattered from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6 - Then they captured the king H4428 and brought him to the king H4428 of Babylon at Riblah, and [fn]he passed sentence on him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 - Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King H4428 Nebuchadnezzar, king H4428 of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king H4428 of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:9 - He burned the house of the LORD, the king’s H4428 house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - Then the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king H4428 of Babylon and the rest of the people, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away into exile.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - From the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and five [fn]of the king’s H4428 advisers who were found in the city; and the [fn]scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20 - Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king H4428 of Babylon at Riblah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21 - Then the king H4428 of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was led away into exile from its land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:22 - Now as for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king H4428 of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan over them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23 - When all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king H4428 of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24 - Gedaliah swore to them and their men and said to them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans; live in the land and serve the king H4428 of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king H4428 of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-merodach king H4428 of Babylon, in the year that he became king, [fn]released Jehoiachin king H4428 of Judah from prison;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:28 - and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings H4428 who were with him in Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:30 - and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, H4428 a portion for each day, all the days of his life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:43 - Now these are the kings H4428 who reigned in the land of Edom before any king H4428 of the sons of Israel reigned. Bela was the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:2 - the third was Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king H4428 of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:23 - These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king H4428 for his work.

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