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. 1 Kings 3:1מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
  2. 1 Kings 3:4הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · Now the king
    Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
  3. 1 Kings 3:13בַּמְּלָכִ֖ים · in any kingdom
    Moreover, I will give you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that during all your days no man in any kingdom will be your equal.
  4. 1 Kings 3:16הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king
    At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
  5. 1 Kings 3:22הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · the king
    “No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.
  6. 1 Kings 3:23הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · Then the king
    Then the king replied, “This woman says, ‘My son is alive and yours is dead,’ but that woman says, ‘No, your son is dead and mine is alive.’”
  7. 1 Kings 3:24 (2×)הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · The king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃
    The king continued, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought him a sword,
  8. 1 Kings 3:25הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · and the king
    …and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
  9. 1 Kings 3:26הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · the king
    Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
  10. 1 Kings 3:27הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · Then the king
    Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”
  11. 1 Kings 3:28 (2×)הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · [him]
    When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
  12. 1 Kings 4:1 (2×)הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · So King; מֶ֖לֶךְ · ruled
    So King Solomon ruled over Israel,
  13. 1 Kings 4:5הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · to the king
    Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the governors; Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to the king;
  14. 1 Kings 4:7הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · for the king
    Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,
  15. 1 Kings 4:19 (2×)מֶ֣לֶךְ · king; מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.
  16. 1 Kings 4:24מַלְכֵ֖י · the kingdoms
    For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates—over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza—and he had peace on all sides.
  17. 1 Kings 4:27 (2×)הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · for King; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ־ · [his]
    Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
  18. 1 Kings 4:34מַלְכֵ֣י · the kings
    So men of all nations came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
  19. 1 Kings 5:1 (2×)מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; לְמֶ֖לֶךְ · king
    Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.
  20. 1 Kings 5:13הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ · Then King
    Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
  21. 1 Kings 5:17הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ · And the king
    And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
  22. 1 Kings 6:2הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · King
    The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
  23. 1 Kings 7:13הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · Now King
    Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.
  24. 1 Kings 7:14הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · King
    He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.
  25. 1 Kings 7:40לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ · for King
    Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:
  26. 1 Kings 7:45לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ · for King
    …and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
  27. 1 Kings 7:46הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · The king
    The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.
  28. 1 Kings 7:51הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ · King
    So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
  29. 1 Kings 8:1הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ · him
    At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
  30. 1 Kings 8:2הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · King
    And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.
  31. 1 Kings 8:5וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · King
    There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
  32. 1 Kings 8:14הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · the king
    And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all
  33. 1 Kings 8:62וְֽהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · Then the king
    Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.
  34. 1 Kings 8:63הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · So the king
    And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
  35. 1 Kings 8:64הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · the king
    On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
  36. 1 Kings 8:66הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king
    On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
  37. 1 Kings 9:1הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the royal
    Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
  38. 1 Kings 9:10הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · the royal
    Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
  39. 1 Kings 9:11 (2×)מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ · King
    King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
  40. 1 Kings 9:14לַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king
    And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
  41. 1 Kings 9:15הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · King
    This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
  42. 1 Kings 9:16מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
  43. 1 Kings 9:26הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ · King
    King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.