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. Exodus 6:13מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
  2. Exodus 6:27מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    Moses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
  3. Exodus 6:29מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    He said to him, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”
  4. Exodus 14:5לְמֶ֣לֶךְ · When the king
    When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”
  5. Exodus 14:8מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out defiantly.
  6. Numbers 20:14מֶ֣לֶךְ · the king
    From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,
  7. Numbers 20:17הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · the King’s
    Please let us pass through your land. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
  8. Numbers 21:1מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.
  9. Numbers 21:21מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
  10. Numbers 21:22הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · the King’s
    “Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”
  11. Numbers 21:26 (2×)מֶ֥לֶךְ · king; בְּמֶ֤לֶךְ · king
    Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
  12. Numbers 21:29לְמֶ֥לֶךְ · king
    Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
  13. Numbers 21:33מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.
  14. Numbers 21:34מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
  15. Numbers 22:4מֶ֥לֶךְ · was king
    So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,
  16. Numbers 22:10מֶ֥לֶךְ · king
    And Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me this message:
  17. Numbers 23:7מֶֽלֶךְ־ · the king
    And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
  18. Numbers 23:21מֶ֖לֶךְ · of the King
    He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.
  19. Numbers 24:7מַלְכּ֔וֹ · His king
    Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
  20. Numbers 31:8 (2×)מַלְכֵ֨י; מַלְכֵ֣י · kings
    Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
  21. Numbers 32:33 (2×)מֶ֣לֶךְ · king; מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.
  22. Numbers 33:40מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    Now the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.
  23. Deuteronomy 1:4 (2×)מֶ֣לֶךְ · king; מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
  24. Deuteronomy 2:24מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    “Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.
  25. Deuteronomy 2:26מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,
  26. Deuteronomy 2:30מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
  27. Deuteronomy 3:1מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.
  28. Deuteronomy 3:2מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
  29. Deuteronomy 3:3מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    So the LORD our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left.
  30. Deuteronomy 3:6מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
  31. Deuteronomy 3:8מַלְכֵ֣י · kings
    At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—
  32. Deuteronomy 3:11מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
  33. Deuteronomy 3:21הַמְּלָכִ֣ים · kings
    And at that time I commanded Joshua: “Your own eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.
  34. Deuteronomy 4:46מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    …while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
  35. Deuteronomy 4:47 (2×)מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מַלְכֵ֣י · kings
    They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—
  36. Deuteronomy 7:8מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  37. Deuteronomy 7:24מַלְכֵיהֶם֙ · He will hand their kings
    He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
  38. Deuteronomy 11:3מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    …the signs and works He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;
  39. Deuteronomy 17:14מֶ֔לֶךְ · a king
    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
  40. Deuteronomy 17:15 (2×)מֶ֔לֶךְ · the king; מֶ֔לֶךְ · a king
    …you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
  41. Deuteronomy 28:36מַלְכְּךָ֙ · the king
    The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
  42. Deuteronomy 29:7 (2×)מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
  43. Deuteronomy 31:4מַלְכֵ֥י · the kings
    And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He destroyed them along with their land.