אֲבִימֶ֫לֶךְ
a.vi.me.lekhAbimelech
hebrewOld TestamentName of a man67 occurrences5 books62 verses
This name belongs to 4 different people in the Bible:
Definition
from H1 and H4428; father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites
Traditional renderings: Abimelech.
Traditional renderings: Abimelech.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
67 total
- Judges 9:41אֲבִימֶ֖לֶךְ · AbimelechAbimelech stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.
- Judges 9:42לַאֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃ · to AbimelechThe next day the people of Shechem went out into the fields, and this was reported to Abimelech.
- Judges 9:44וַאֲבִימֶ֗לֶךְ · Then AbimelechThen Abimelech and the companies with him rushed forward and took their stand at the entrance of the city gate. The other two companies rushed against all who were in the fields and struck them down.
- Judges 9:45וַאֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ · AbimelechAnd all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
- Judges 9:47לַאֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ · And when AbimelechAnd when Abimelech was told that all the leaders in the tower of Shechem were gathered there,
- Judges 9:48 (2×)אֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ · he; אֲבִימֶ֨לֶךְ · Abimelech…he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
- Judges 9:49אֲבִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙ · AbimelechSo each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
- Judges 9:50אֲבִימֶ֖לֶךְ · Then AbimelechThen Abimelech went to Thebez, encamped against it, and captured it.
- Judges 9:52אֲבִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙ · When AbimelechWhen Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.
- Judges 9:53אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ · Abimelech’sBut a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull.
- Judges 9:55אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ · AbimelechAnd when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
- Judges 9:56אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ · AbimelechIn this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.
- Judges 10:1אֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ · of AbimelechAfter the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
- 2 Samuel 11:21אֲבִימֶ֣לֶךְ · AbimelechWho struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
- 1 Chronicles 18:16וַאֲבִימֶ֥לֶךְ · and AhimelechZadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was the scribe;
- Psalm 34:1אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ · AbimelechOf David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, so that the king drove him away. I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise will always be on my lips.