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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 17 / 39 (2Ki 14:18–2Ki 17:26)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:18 - And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings H4428 of Judah?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:22 - He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king H4428 slept with his fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:23 - In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king H4428 of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king H4428 of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings H4428 of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:29 - And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings H4428 of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:1 - In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king H4428 of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king H4428 of Judah to reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:5 - And the LORD smote the king, H4428 so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's H4428 son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:6 - And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings H4428 of Judah?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:8 - In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king H4428 of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:11 - And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings H4428 of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:13 - Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king H4428 of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:15 - And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings H4428 of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:17 - In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king H4428 of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:19 - And Pul the king H4428 of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:20 - And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king H4428 of Assyria. So the king H4428 of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:21 - And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings H4428 of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:23 - In the fiftieth year of Azariah king H4428 of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:25 - But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's H4428 house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:26 - And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings H4428 of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:27 - In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king H4428 of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:29 - In the days of Pekah king H4428 of Israel came Tiglathpileser king H4428 of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:31 - And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings H4428 of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:32 - In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king H4428 of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king H4428 of Judah to reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:36 - Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings H4428 of Judah?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:37 - In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king H4428 of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:1 - In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king H4428 of Judah began to reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:3 - But he walked in the way of the kings H4428 of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:5 - Then Rezin king H4428 of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king H4428 of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:6 - At that time Rezin king H4428 of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:7 - So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king H4428 of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king H4428 of Syria, and out of the hand of the king H4428 of Israel, which rise up against me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:8 - And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's H4428 house, and sent it for a present to the king H4428 of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:9 - And the king H4428 of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king H4428 of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:10 - And king H4428 Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king H4428 of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king H4428 Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:11 - And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king H4428 Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king H4428 Ahaz came from Damascus.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:12 - And when the king H4428 was come from Damascus, the king H4428 saw the altar: and the king H4428 approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:15 - And king H4428 Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's H4428 burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:16 - Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king H4428 Ahaz commanded.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:17 - And king H4428 Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:18 - And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's H4428 entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king H4428 of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:19 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings H4428 of Judah?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:1 - In the twelfth year of Ahaz king H4428 of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:2 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings H4428 of Israel that were before him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:3 - Against him came up Shalmaneser king H4428 of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - And the king H4428 of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king H4428 of Egypt, and brought no present to the king H4428 of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king H4428 of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:5 - Then the king H4428 of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king H4428 of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:7 - For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king H4428 of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:8 - And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings H4428 of Israel, which they had made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - And the king H4428 of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26 - Wherefore they spake to the king H4428 of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

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