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HebrewH4428Noun (Masculine)

מֶ֫לֶךְ

me.lekh

1,822Occurrences
H4428Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a king

from H4427 (מָלַךְ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. king Aramaic equivalent: me.lekh (*מֶ֫לֶךְ *"king" H4430)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

מֶ֫לֶךְ appears 1,822 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Kings
262
1 Kings
221
2 Chronicles
215
Jeremiah
212
2 Samuel
165
Esther
119
Isaiah
71
1 Samuel
68

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:43BSB

These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.

2 Chronicles 12:9BSB

So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

2 Kings 23:23BSB

But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Esther 2:2BSB

Then the king’s attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,

Jeremiah 27:3BSB

Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

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