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. Joshua 12:23 (2×)מֶ֥לֶךְ · the king; מֶֽלֶךְ־ · the king
    …the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
  2. Joshua 12:24 (2×)מֶ֥לֶךְ · [and] the king; מְלָכִ֖ים · kings
    …and the king of Tirzah, one. So there were thirty-one kings in all.
  3. Joshua 13:10מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    …and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;
  4. Joshua 13:21מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    …all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.
  5. Joshua 13:27מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    …and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, with the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon (the territory on the east side of the Jordan up to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth).
  6. Joshua 13:30מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;
  7. Joshua 24:9מֶ֣לֶךְ · the king
    Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,
  8. Joshua 24:12מַלְכֵ֣י · kings
    I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.
  9. Judges 1:7מְלָכִ֡ים · kings
    Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
  10. Judges 3:8מֶ֖לֶךְ · king
    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.
  11. Judges 3:10מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him.
  12. Judges 3:12מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. So He gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
  13. Judges 3:14מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.
  14. Judges 3:15מֶ֥לֶךְ · king
    And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
  15. Judges 3:17מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    …and brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was an obese man.
  16. Judges 3:19הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · O king
    But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.
  17. Judges 4:2מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
  18. Judges 4:17מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
  19. Judges 4:23מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
  20. Judges 4:24 (2×)מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מֶֽלֶךְ־
    And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.
  21. Judges 5:3מְלָכִ֔ים · O kings
    Listen, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
  22. Judges 5:19 (2×)מְלָכִים֙ · Kings; מַלְכֵ֣י · the kings
    Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.
  23. Judges 8:5מַלְכֵ֥י · the kings
    So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
  24. Judges 8:12מַלְכֵ֣י · kings
    When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, Gideon pursued and captured these two kings of Midian, routing their entire army.
  25. Judges 8:18הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · of a king
    Next, Gideon asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?” “Men like you,” they answered, “each one resembling the son of a king.”
  26. Judges 8:26מַלְכֵ֣י · the kings
    The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
  27. Judges 9:6לְמֶ֑לֶךְ · [their] king
    Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.
  28. Judges 9:8מֶ֑לֶךְ · a king
    One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
  29. Judges 9:15לְמֶ֙לֶךְ֙ · as king
    But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
  30. Judges 11:12מֶ֥לֶךְ · the king
    Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?”
  31. Judges 11:13מֶ֨לֶךְ · The king
    The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”
  32. Judges 11:14מֶ֖לֶךְ · the king
    Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites
  33. Judges 11:17 (3×)מֶלֶךְ֩ · the king; מֶ֣לֶךְ · but the king; מֶ֧לֶךְ · the king
    Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel stayed in Kadesh.
  34. Judges 11:19 (2×)מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king; מֶ֣לֶךְ · who ruled
    And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land into our own place.’
  35. Judges 11:25מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    Are you now so much better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel or fight against them?
  36. Judges 11:28מֶ֖לֶךְ · But the king
    But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.
  37. Judges 17:6מֶ֖לֶךְ · king
    In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  38. Judges 18:1מֶ֖לֶךְ · king
    In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
  39. Judges 19:1וּמֶ֖לֶךְ · king
    Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
  40. Judges 21:25מֶ֖לֶךְ · king
    In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  41. 1 Samuel 2:10לְמַלְכּ֔וֹ · to His king
    Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
  42. 1 Samuel 8:5מֶ֛לֶךְ · a king
    “Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
  43. 1 Samuel 8:6מֶ֖לֶךְ · a king
    But when they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.