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 23:11הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · the king’s; הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס · the king
    Then Jehoiada and his sons brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him, presented him with the Testimony, and proclaimed him king. They anointed him and shouted, “Long live the king!”
  2. 2 Chronicles 23:12הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king
    When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and cheering the king, she went out to them in the house of the LORD.
  3. 2 Chronicles 23:13הַמֶּלֶךְ֩ · the king; הַמֶּלֶךְ֒ · the king
    And she looked and saw the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, while the singers with musical instruments were leading the praises. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”
  4. 2 Chronicles 23:15הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · on the palace grounds
    So they seized Athaliah as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate on the palace grounds, and there they put her to death.
  5. 2 Chronicles 23:16הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king
    Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people.
  6. 2 Chronicles 23:20הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · and they brought the king; הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the royal; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · King [Joash]
    And he took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate. They seated King Joash on the royal throne,
  7. 2 Chronicles 24:6הַמֶּלֶךְ֮ · So the king
    So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”
  8. 2 Chronicles 24:8הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · At the king’s
    At the king’s command a chest was made and placed outside, at the gate of the house of the LORD.
  9. 2 Chronicles 24:11הַמֶּלֶךְ֮ · the king’s; הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · the royal
    Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.
  10. 2 Chronicles 24:12הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · Then the king
    Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who supervised the labor on the house of the LORD to hire stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, as well as workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.
  11. 2 Chronicles 24:14הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ · the king
    When they were finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made articles for the house of the LORD—utensils for the service and for the burnt offerings, dishes, and other objects of gold and silver. Throughout the days of Jehoiada, burnt offerings were presented regularly in the house of the LORD.
  12. 2 Chronicles 24:16הַמְּלָכִ֑ים · the kings
    And Jehoiada was buried with the kings in the City of David, because he had done what was good in Israel for God and His temple.
  13. 2 Chronicles 24:17לַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · to the king; הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · [he]
    After the death of Jehoiada, however, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.
  14. 2 Chronicles 24:21הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · of the king
    But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
  15. 2 Chronicles 24:22הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · Thus King
    Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
  16. 2 Chronicles 24:23לְמֶ֥לֶךְ · to their king
    In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.
  17. 2 Chronicles 24:25הַמְּלָכִֽים׃ס · of the kings
    And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
  18. 2 Chronicles 24:27הַמְּלָכִ֑ים · of the Kings
    The accounts of the sons of Joash and the many pronouncements about him, and of the restoration of the house of God, are indeed written in the Treatise of the Book of the Kings. And his son Amaziah reigned in his place.
  19. 2 Chronicles 25:3הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ · the king
    As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
  20. 2 Chronicles 25:7הַמֶּ֕לֶךְ · O king
    But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the Ephraimites.
  21. 2 Chronicles 25:16לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · to the king
    While he was still speaking, the king asked, “Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice.”
  22. 2 Chronicles 25:17מֶ֣לֶךְ · king; מֶ֥לֶךְ · the king
    Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent word to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.
  23. 2 Chronicles 25:18מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.
  24. 2 Chronicles 25:21מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    So Jehoash king of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
  25. 2 Chronicles 25:23מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
  26. 2 Chronicles 25:24הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · of the royal
    He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of God with Obed-edom and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.
  27. 2 Chronicles 25:25מֶ֣לֶךְ · king; מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.
  28. 2 Chronicles 25:26מַלְכֵי־ · of the Kings
    As for the rest of the acts of Amaziah, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?
  29. 2 Chronicles 26:2הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · King [Amaziah]
    Uzziah was the one who rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.
  30. 2 Chronicles 26:11הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · one of the royal
    Uzziah had an army ready for battle that went out to war by assigned divisions, as recorded by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal officers.
  31. 2 Chronicles 26:13לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
    Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.
  32. 2 Chronicles 26:18הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ · King
    They took their stand against King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the LORD. Only the priests, the descendants of Aaron, are consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully; you will not receive honor from the LORD God.”
  33. 2 Chronicles 26:21הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · So King; הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · of the royal
    So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace and governed the people of the land.
  34. 2 Chronicles 26:23לַמְּלָכִ֔ים · to the kings
    And Uzziah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in a field of burial that belonged to the kings, for the people said, “He was a leper.” And his son Jotham reigned in his place.
  35. 2 Chronicles 27:5מֶ֣לֶךְ · the king
    Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. They paid him the same in the second and third years.
  36. 2 Chronicles 27:7מַלְכֵֽי־ · of the Kings
    As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with all his wars and his ways, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
  37. 2 Chronicles 28:2מַלְכֵ֣י · of the kings
    Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals.
  38. 2 Chronicles 28:5מֶ֣לֶךְ · of the king
    So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascus. Ahaz was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.