מֶ֫לֶךְ

me.lekhking
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine2,525 occurrences35 books1,921 verses
This word comes from the names of Hammelech, King's Highway, King's Valley, Shelah and Molech.

Definition

from H4427; a king
Traditional renderings: king, royal.

Glossary entries

Milcom King’s Highway King’s Pool King’s Valley Hammelech Molech

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

2,525 total
  1. 2 Samuel 19:19הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · May the king
    …and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
  2. 2 Samuel 19:20הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס · the king
    For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
  3. 2 Samuel 19:22מֶ֥לֶךְ · king
    And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
  4. 2 Samuel 19:23 (2×)הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ · So the king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס · And the king
    So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore an oath to him.
  5. 2 Samuel 19:24 (2×)הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king
    Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.
  6. 2 Samuel 19:25 (2×)הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · [who]
    And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”
  7. 2 Samuel 19:26 (2×)הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king
    “My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,
  8. 2 Samuel 19:27 (2×)הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · the king [is]
    …and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
  9. 2 Samuel 19:28 (2×)הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃פ · the king
    For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
  10. 2 Samuel 19:29הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · The king
    The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
  11. 2 Samuel 19:30 (2×)הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֛לֶך · the king
    And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
  12. 2 Samuel 19:31הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · the king
    Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and send him on his way from there.
  13. 2 Samuel 19:32הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · for the king
    Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
  14. 2 Samuel 19:33הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · The king
    The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”
  15. 2 Samuel 19:34 (2×)הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
    But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
  16. 2 Samuel 19:35הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · the king
    I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
  17. 2 Samuel 19:36 (2×)הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · should the king
    Your servant will go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
  18. 2 Samuel 19:37הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king
    Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
  19. 2 Samuel 19:38הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · The king
    The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”
  20. 2 Samuel 19:39 (2×)וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · and then the king; הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · The king
    So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.
  21. 2 Samuel 19:40 (2×)הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · Then the king; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · escorted the king
    Then the king crossed over to Gilgal, and Chimham crossed over with him. All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel escorted the king.
  22. 2 Samuel 19:41 (3×)הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ; הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · and bring the king
    Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
  23. 2 Samuel 19:42 (2×)הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · the king; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king’s [expense]
    And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”
  24. 2 Samuel 19:43 (2×)בַמֶּלֶךְ֮ · in the king; מַלְכִּ֑י · our king
    “We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.
  25. 2 Samuel 20:2בְמַלְכָּ֔ם · their king
    So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
  26. 2 Samuel 20:3הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ · he
    When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
  27. 2 Samuel 20:4הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · Then the king
    Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
  28. 2 Samuel 20:21בַּמֶּ֣לֶךְ · against the king
    That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
  29. 2 Samuel 20:22הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס · the king
    Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
  30. 2 Samuel 21:2הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ · At this, David
    At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)
  31. 2 Samuel 21:5הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king
    And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
  32. 2 Samuel 21:6הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
    …let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.
  33. 2 Samuel 21:7הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · Now the king
    Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.
  34. 2 Samuel 21:8הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ · But the king
    But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
  35. 2 Samuel 21:14הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king
    And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.