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

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Occurrences

2,525 total
  1. 2 Chronicles 9:22הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · So King; מַלְכֵ֣י · the kings
    So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
  2. 2 Chronicles 9:23מַלְכֵ֣י · the kings
    All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
  3. 2 Chronicles 9:25הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · [him]
    Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
  4. 2 Chronicles 9:26הַמְּלָכִ֑ים · the kings
    He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
  5. 2 Chronicles 9:27הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ · The king
    The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
  6. 2 Chronicles 10:2הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · from King
    When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.
  7. 2 Chronicles 10:6הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · Then King
    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
  8. 2 Chronicles 10:12הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · the king
    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
  9. 2 Chronicles 10:13הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · And the king; הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · King
    And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
  10. 2 Chronicles 10:15הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · So the king
    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
  11. 2 Chronicles 10:16הַמֶּלֶךְ֮ · the king; הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ׀ · the king
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,
  12. 2 Chronicles 10:18הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · Then King; וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · And King
    Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
  13. 2 Chronicles 11:3מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    “Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin
  14. 2 Chronicles 12:2לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · reign; מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem
  15. 2 Chronicles 12:6וְהַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · and the king
    So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
  16. 2 Chronicles 12:9מֶֽלֶךְ־ · So King; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · of the royal
    So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
  17. 2 Chronicles 12:10הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ · Then King; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · to the royal
    Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
  18. 2 Chronicles 12:11הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
    And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would go with him, bearing the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
  19. 2 Chronicles 12:13הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ · Thus King
    Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
  20. 2 Chronicles 13:1לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · reign
    In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign, Abijah became king of Judah,
  21. 2 Chronicles 15:16הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · King
    King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
  22. 2 Chronicles 16:1מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מֶ֥לֶךְ · king
    In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.
  23. 2 Chronicles 16:2הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · and the royal; מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    So Asa withdrew the silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent it with this message to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:
  24. 2 Chronicles 16:3מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    “Let there be a treaty between me and you as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
  25. 2 Chronicles 16:4הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · King
    And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
  26. 2 Chronicles 16:6הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · Then King
    Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials he built up Geba and Mizpah.
  27. 2 Chronicles 16:7מֶ֣לֶךְ · King; מֶ֤לֶךְ · the king; מֶֽלֶךְ־ · of the king
    At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.
  28. 2 Chronicles 16:11הַמְּלָכִ֔ים · of the Kings
    Now the acts of Asa, from beginning to end, are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
  29. 2 Chronicles 17:19הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king; הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ · he
    These were the men who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.
  30. 2 Chronicles 18:3מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat replied, “I am as you are, and my people are your people; we will join you in the war.”
  31. 2 Chronicles 18:4מֶ֣לֶךְ · the king
    But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the LORD.”
  32. 2 Chronicles 18:5מֶֽלֶךְ־ · So the king; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · of the king
    So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, four hundred men, and asked them, “Should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should we refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and God will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
  33. 2 Chronicles 18:7מֶֽלֶךְ־ · The king; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · The king
    The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.
  34. 2 Chronicles 18:8מֶ֣לֶךְ · So the king
    So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
  35. 2 Chronicles 18:9וּמֶ֣לֶךְ · the king
    Dressed in royal attire, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.