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HebrewH5663Proper Noun (Masculine)

עֶ֫בֶד מֶ֫לֶךְ

e.ved me.lekh

6Occurrences
H5663Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Ebed-Melek, a eunuch of Zedekeah

from H5650 (עֶבֶד) and H4428 (מֶלֶךְ); servant of a king;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at § Ebed-melech = "servant of the king" an Ethiopian eunuch in the service of king Zedekiah, through whose interference Jeremiah was released from prison

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

עֶ֫בֶד מֶ֫לֶךְ appears 6 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
6

Key Passages

Jeremiah 38:7BSB

Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

Jeremiah 38:8BSB

Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and said to the king,

Jeremiah 38:10BSB

So the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and pull Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

Jeremiah 38:11BSB

Then Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king’s palace, to a place below the storehouse. From there he took old rags and worn-out clothes and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.

Jeremiah 38:12BSB

Ebed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, “Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,

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