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. Jeremiah 50:41וּמְלָכִ֣ים · kings
    Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.
  2. Jeremiah 50:43מֶֽלֶךְ־ · The king
    The king of Babylon has heard the report, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.
  3. Jeremiah 51:11מַלְכֵ֣י · of the kings
    Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.
  4. Jeremiah 51:28מַלְכֵ֣י · the kings
    Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.
  5. Jeremiah 51:31לְמֶ֣לֶךְ · to the king
    One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
  6. Jeremiah 51:34מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
  7. Jeremiah 51:57הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the King
    I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
  8. Jeremiah 51:59מֶֽלֶךְ־ · King
    This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
  9. Jeremiah 52:3בְּמֶ֥לֶךְ · against the king
    For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  10. Jeremiah 52:4מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
  11. Jeremiah 52:5לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · King
    And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
  12. Jeremiah 52:7הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king’s
    Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
  13. Jeremiah 52:8הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king
    …but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.
  14. Jeremiah 52:9הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king; מֶ֧לֶךְ · the king
    The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.
  15. Jeremiah 52:10מֶֽלֶךְ־ · the king
    There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.
  16. Jeremiah 52:11מֶֽלֶךְ־ · him
    Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
  17. Jeremiah 52:12לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ; מֶֽלֶךְ־ · reign; מֶֽלֶךְ־ · of the king
    On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
  18. Jeremiah 52:13הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the royal
    He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
  19. Jeremiah 52:15מֶ֣לֶךְ · the king
    Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.
  20. Jeremiah 52:20הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ · King
    As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
  21. Jeremiah 52:25הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · trusted royal
    Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
  22. Jeremiah 52:26מֶ֥לֶךְ · the king
    Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
  23. Jeremiah 52:27מֶ֨לֶךְ · the king
    There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
  24. Jeremiah 52:31מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מֶ֨לֶךְ · king; מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
  25. Jeremiah 52:32מְלָכִים · of the other kings
    And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
  26. Jeremiah 52:34מֶֽלֶךְ־ · And the king
    And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.
  27. Lamentations 2:6מֶ֥לֶךְ · [both] king
    He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
  28. Lamentations 2:9מַלְכָּ֨הּ · Her king
    Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
  29. Lamentations 4:12מַלְכֵי־ · The kings
    The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
  30. Ezekiel 1:2הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ · of King
    On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
  31. Ezekiel 7:27הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ · The king
    The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
  32. Ezekiel 17:12מֶֽלֶךְ־ · the king; מַלְכָּהּ֙ · its king
    “Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.
  33. Ezekiel 17:16הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · of the king
    ‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.
  34. Ezekiel 19:9מֶ֣לֶךְ · the king
    With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
  35. Ezekiel 21:19מֶֽלֶךְ־ · of the king
    “Now you, son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same land. And make a signpost where the road branches off to each city.
  36. Ezekiel 21:21מֶלֶךְ־ · the king
    For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.
  37. Ezekiel 24:2מֶֽלֶךְ־ · the king
    “Son of man, write down today’s date, for on this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem.
  38. Ezekiel 26:7מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מֶ֣לֶךְ · king; מְלָכִ֑ים · of kings
    For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.
  39. Ezekiel 27:33מַלְכֵי־ · the kings
    When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise.
  40. Ezekiel 27:35וּמַלְכֵיהֶם֙ · Their kings
    All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
  41. Ezekiel 28:12מֶ֣לֶךְ · the king
    “Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
  42. Ezekiel 28:17מְלָכִ֛ים · kings
    Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.