מֶ֫לֶךְ

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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מֶ֫לֶךְ:

Glossary entries

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

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

2,525 total
  1. 2 Kings 19:10מֶ֥לֶךְ · of the king
    “Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
  2. 2 Kings 19:11מַלְכֵ֥י · the kings
    Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
  3. 2 Kings 19:13מֶֽלֶךְ־ · are the kings; וּמֶ֣לֶךְ; וּמֶ֖לֶךְ
    Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
  4. 2 Kings 19:17מַלְכֵ֥י · the kings
    Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
  5. 2 Kings 19:20מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
  6. 2 Kings 19:32מֶ֣לֶךְ · the king
    So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
  7. 2 Kings 19:36מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
  8. 2 Kings 20:6מֶֽלֶךְ־ · of the king
    I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
  9. 2 Kings 20:12מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness.
  10. 2 Kings 20:14הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · King
    Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
  11. 2 Kings 20:18מֶ֥לֶךְ · of the king
    And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
  12. 2 Kings 20:20לְמַלְכֵ֥י · of the Kings
    As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  13. 2 Kings 21:3מֶ֣לֶךְ · King
    For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
  14. 2 Kings 21:11מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    “Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
  15. 2 Kings 21:17לְמַלְכֵ֥י · of the Kings
    As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  16. 2 Kings 21:23הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
    Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.
  17. 2 Kings 21:24הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · King
    But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
  18. 2 Kings 21:25לְמַלְכֵ֥י · of the Kings
    As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  19. 2 Kings 22:3לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · of his reign; הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ · King
    Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
  20. 2 Kings 22:9הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ
    And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
  21. 2 Kings 22:10לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · of the king
    Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
  22. 2 Kings 22:11הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · When the king
    When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes
  23. 2 Kings 22:12הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ · [and]; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · of the king
    …and commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:
  24. 2 Kings 22:16מֶ֥לֶךְ · the king
    …that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,
  25. 2 Kings 22:18מֶ֣לֶךְ · the king
    But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,
  26. 2 Kings 22:20הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · back to the king
    ‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
  27. 2 Kings 23:1הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · Then the king
    Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
  28. 2 Kings 23:2הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · And [he]
    And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
  29. 2 Kings 23:3הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ · So the king
    So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
  30. 2 Kings 23:4הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ · Then the king
    Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
  31. 2 Kings 23:5מַלְכֵ֣י · by the kings
    Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
  32. 2 Kings 23:11מַלְכֵ֨י · the kings
    And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.
  33. 2 Kings 23:12מַלְכֵ֣י · the kings; הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · The king
    He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
  34. 2 Kings 23:13מֶֽלֶךְ־ · King; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · The king
    The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
  35. 2 Kings 23:19מַלְכֵ֤י · by the kings
    Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
  36. 2 Kings 23:21הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · The king
    The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
  37. 2 Kings 23:22מַלְכֵ֥י · of the kings; וּמַלְכֵ֥י
    No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah.
  38. 2 Kings 23:23לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · reign
    But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.
  39. 2 Kings 23:25מֶ֗לֶךְ · any king
    Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.
  40. 2 Kings 23:28לְמַלְכֵ֥י · of the Kings
    As for the rest of the acts of Josiah and all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  41. 2 Kings 23:29מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    During Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.