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HebrewH0040Proper Noun (Masculine)

אֲבִימֶ֫לֶךְ

a.vi.me.lekh

61Occurrences
H0040Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites

from H1 (אָב) and H4428 (מֶלֶךְ); father of (the) king;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at § 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

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

אֲבִימֶ֫לֶךְ appears 61 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Judges
36
Genesis
23
1 Chronicles
1
2 Samuel
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 18:16BSB

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests;Shavsha was the scribe;

Genesis 21:22BSB

At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

Genesis 26:26BSB

Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.

Judges 9:22BSB

After Abimelech had reigned over Israel for three years,

Judges 9:40BSB

but Abimelech pursued him, and Gaal fled before him. And many Shechemites fell wounded all the way to the entrance of the gate.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.