מֶ֫לֶךְ
me.lekh
“king”
Definition
a king
(Aramaic) corresponding to H4428 (מֶלֶךְ);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
A:N-M
A:N-M
Occurrences
מֶ֫לֶךְ appears 100 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.
The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the fiery flames killed the men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.
But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this temple and carried away the people to Babylon.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.