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Lexicon :: Strong's H40 - 'ăḇîmeleḵ

Strong's

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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)

From אָב (H1) and מֶלֶךְ (H4428)

Strong's Info

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).

Outline of Biblical Usage [?]

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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon [?] (Jump to Scripture Index)

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 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 Osiander^{ZMG 1865, 209}).

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

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

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Jdg 9:47 - When Abimelek heard that they had assembled there,

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Jdg 9:48 - he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, “Quick! Do what you have seen me do!”

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Jdg 9:49 - So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelek. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire with the people still inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.

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Jdg 9:50 - Next Abimelek went to Thebez and besieged it and captured it.

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Jdg 9:52 - Abimelek went to the tower and attacked it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire,

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Jdg 9:53 - a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.

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Jdg 9:55 - When the Israelites saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.

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Jdg 9:56 - Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.

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Jdg 10:1 - After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.

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2Sa 11:21 - Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth[fn]? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’ ”

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1Ch 18:16 - Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelek[fn] son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was secretary;

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Psa 34:1 - [fn][fn]Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelek, who drove him away, and he left. I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.

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