HebrewH4430Noun (Masculine)

מֶ֫לֶךְ

me.lekh

100Occurrences
H4430Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a king

(Aramaic) corresponding to H4428 (מֶלֶךְ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
king Aramaic of me.lekh (*מֶ֫לֶךְ *"king" H4428) § 1) king

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

A:N-M

Full Description

A:N-M

Occurrences

מֶ֫לֶךְ appears 100 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Daniel
63
Ezra
37

Key Passages

Daniel 2:4BSB

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.”

Daniel 2:36BSB

This was the dream; now we will tell the king its interpretation.

Daniel 3:22BSB

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.

Daniel 7:1BSB

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.

Ezra 5:12BSB

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.

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