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Lexicon :: Strong's H4430 - meleḵ

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מֶלֶךְ
Transliteration
meleḵ
Pronunciation
meh'-lek
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Corresponding to מֶלֶךְ (H4428)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2829a

Strong’s Definitions

מֶלֶךְ melek, meh'-lek; (Aramaic) corresponding to H4428; a king:—king, royal.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 180x

The KJV translates Strong's H4430 in the following manner: king (179x), royal (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 180x
The KJV translates Strong's H4430 in the following manner: king (179x), royal (1x).

  1. king

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מֶלֶךְ melek, meh'-lek; (Aramaic) corresponding to H4428; a king:—king, royal.
STRONGS H4430: Abbreviations

Biblical Aramaic

מֶ֫לֶךְ 178 noun masculine king (general Semitic; see Biblical Hebrew H4429); — מ׳ absolute Daniel 2:10 + 2 times; construct Daniel 4:34 [Daniel 4:37] + 6 times; usually emphatic מַלְכָּא Ezra 4:8 + 154 times, מַלְכָּ֤ה Daniel 2:11; plural מַלְכִין Ezra 4:15 + 9 times, לְמַלְכָּ֔א Ezra 4:13 (Hebraism, BeRy M41*); emphatic מַלְכַיָּא Daniel 2:44 + 2 times; — king Daniel 2:4, Daniel 2:5 + 132 times Daniel; Ezra 4:8, Ezra 4:11 + 42 times Ezra (מֶלָךְ מַלְכַיָּא of Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 2:37, of Artaxerxes Ezra 7:12 [compare Cooke71.3, of Xerxes]; מַלְכִין Daniel 7:17 —מַלְכוּ = kingdoms, compare Daniel 7:23).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

4:8; 4:8; 4:11; 4:13; 4:15; 7:12

Daniel

2:4; 2:5; 2:10; 2:10; 2:11; 2:37; 2:44; 7:17; 7:23

H4430

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4430 matches the Hebrew מֶלֶךְ (meleḵ),
which occurs 180 times in 131 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Ezr 4:8–Dan 2:24)

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:8 - Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter concerning Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:11 - (This is a copy of the letter they sent to him:) "To King Artaxerxes, from your servants in Trans-Euphrates:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:12 - Now let the king be aware that the Jews who came up to us from you have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and odious city. They are completing its walls and repairing its foundations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:13 - Let the king also be aware that if this city is built and its walls are completed, no more tax, custom, or toll will be paid, and the royal treasury will suffer loss.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:14 - In light of the fact that we are loyal to the king, and since it does not seem appropriate to us that the king should sustain damage, we are sending the king this information

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:15 - so that he may initiate a search of the records of his predecessors and discover in those records that this city is rebellious and injurious to both kings and provinces, producing internal revolts from long ago. It is for this very reason that this city was destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:16 - We therefore are informing the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, you will not retain control of this portion of Trans-Euphrates."

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:17 - The king sent the following response: "To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and other parts of Trans-Euphrates: Greetings!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:19 - So I gave orders, and it was determined that this city from long ago has been engaging in insurrection against kings. It has continually engaged in rebellion and revolt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:20 - Powerful kings have been over Jerusalem who ruled throughout the entire Trans-Euphrates and who were the beneficiaries of tribute, custom, and toll.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:22 - Exercise appropriate caution so that there is no negligence in this matter. Why should danger increase to the point that kings sustain damage?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:23 - Then, as soon as the copy of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read in the presence of Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their colleagues, they proceeded promptly to the Jews in Jerusalem and stopped them with threat of armed force.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:24 - So the work on the temple of God in Jerusalem came to a halt. It remained halted until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:6 - This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and his colleagues who were the officials of Trans-Euphrates sent to King Darius.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:7 - The report they sent to him was written as follows: "To King Darius: All greetings!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:8 - Let it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the temple of the great God. It is being built with large stones, and timbers are being placed in the walls. This work is being done with all diligence and is prospering in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:11 - They responded to us in the following way: 'We are servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are rebuilding the temple which was previously built many years ago. A great king of Israel built it and completed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - But after our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:13 - But in the first year of King Cyrus of Babylon, King Cyrus enacted a decree to rebuild this temple of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:14 - Even the gold and silver vessels of the temple of God that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and had brought to the palace of Babylon - even those things King Cyrus brought from the palace of Babylon and presented to a man by the name of Sheshbazzar whom he had appointed as governor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17 - "Now if the king is so inclined, let a search be conducted in the royal archives there in Babylon in order to determine whether King Cyrus did in fact issue orders for this temple of God to be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us a decision concerning this matter."

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1 - So Darius the king issued orders, and they searched in the archives of the treasury which were deposited there in Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:3 - In the first year of his reign, King Cyrus gave orders concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: 'Let the temple be rebuilt as a place where sacrifices are offered. Let its foundations be set in place. Its height is to be ninety feet and its width ninety feet,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:4 - with three layers of large stones and one layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized by the royal treasury.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:8 - "I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:10 - so that they may be offering incense to the God of heaven and may be praying for the good fortune of the king and his family.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:12 - May God who makes his name to reside there overthrow any king or nation who reaches out to cause such change so as to destroy this temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given orders. Let them be carried out with precision!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:13 - Then Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and their colleagues acted accordingly - with precision, just as Darius the king had given instructions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:14 - The elders of the Jews continued building and prospering, while at the same time Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo continued prophesying. They built and brought it to completion by the command of the God of Israel and by the command of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:15 - They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:12 - "Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the perfect law of the God of heaven:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:14 - You are authorized by the king and his seven advisers to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your possession,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:15 - and to bring silver and gold which the king and his advisers have freely contributed to the God of Israel, who resides in Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:20 - The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply, you may do so from the royal treasury.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:21 - "I, King Artaxerxes, hereby issue orders to all the treasurers of Trans-Euphrates, that you precisely execute all that Ezra the priestly scribe of the law of the God of heaven may request of you -

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:23 - Everything that the God of heaven has required should be precisely done for the temple of the God of heaven. Why should there be wrath against the empire of the king and his sons?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:26 - Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison."

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:4 - The wise men replied to the king: [What follows is in Aramaic] "O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will disclose its interpretation."

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5 - The king replied to the wise men, "My decision is firm. If you do not inform me of both the dream and its interpretation, you will be dismembered and your homes reduced to rubble!

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:7 - They again replied, "Let the king inform us of the dream; then we will disclose its interpretation."

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:8 - The king replied, "I know for sure that you are attempting to gain time, because you see that my decision is firm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:10 - The wise men replied to the king, "There is no man on earth who is able to disclose the king's secret, for no king, regardless of his position and power, has ever requested such a thing from any magician, astrologer, or wise man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11 - What the king is asking is too difficult, and no one exists who can disclose it to the king, except for the gods - but they don't live among mortals!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:12 - Because of this the king got furiously angry and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:14 - Then Daniel spoke with prudent counsel to Arioch, who was in charge of the king's executioners and who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:15 - He inquired of Arioch the king's deputy, "Why is the decree from the king so urgent?" Then Arioch informed Daniel about the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:16 - So Daniel went in and requested the king to grant him time, that he might disclose the interpretation to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:21 - He changes times and seasons, deposing some kings and establishing others. He gives wisdom to the wise; he imparts knowledge to those with understanding;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:23 - O God of my fathers, I acknowledge and glorify you, for you have bestowed wisdom and power on me. Now you have enabled me to understand what I requested from you. For you have enabled me to understand the king's dilemma."

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:24 - Then Daniel went in to see Arioch (whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon). He came and said to him, "Don't destroy the wise men of Babylon! Escort me to the king, and I will disclose the interpretation to him!"

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