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. 1 Samuel 8:9הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · of the king
    Now listen to their voice; but you must solemnly warn them and show them the manner of the king who will reign over them.”
  2. 1 Samuel 8:10מֶֽלֶךְ׃ס · a king
    So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
  3. 1 Samuel 8:11הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · of the king
    He said, “This will be the manner of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them to serve his own chariots and horses, and to run in front of his chariots.
  4. 1 Samuel 8:18מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם · the king
    When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”
  5. 1 Samuel 8:19מֶ֖לֶךְ · a king
    Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
  6. 1 Samuel 8:20מַלְכֵּ֙נוּ֙ · with a king
    Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
  7. 1 Samuel 8:22מֶ֑לֶךְ · a king
    “Listen to their voice,” the LORD said to Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.” Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Everyone must go back to his city.”
  8. 1 Samuel 10:19מֶ֖לֶךְ · a king
    But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”
  9. 1 Samuel 10:24הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃פ · the king
    Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
  10. 1 Samuel 12:1מֶֽלֶךְ׃ · a king
    Then Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to your voice in all that you have said to me, and I have set over you a king.
  11. 1 Samuel 12:2הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ׀ · the king
    Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
  12. 1 Samuel 12:9מֶ֣לֶךְ · and the king
    But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.
  13. 1 Samuel 12:12 (3×)מֶ֣לֶךְ · king; מֶ֖לֶךְ · we must have a king; מַלְכְּכֶֽם׃ · [was] your king
    But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.
  14. 1 Samuel 12:13 (2×)הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ · the king; מֶֽלֶךְ׃ · a king
    Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you requested. Behold, the LORD has placed a king over you.
  15. 1 Samuel 12:14הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · the king
    If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the LORD your God, then all will be well.
  16. 1 Samuel 12:17מֶֽלֶךְ׃ס · a king
    Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”
  17. 1 Samuel 12:19מֶֽלֶךְ׃ס · a king
    They pleaded with Samuel, “Pray to the LORD your God for your servants so that we will not die! For we have added to all our sins the evil of asking for a king.”
  18. 1 Samuel 12:25מַלְכְּכֶ֖ם · your king
    But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
  19. 1 Samuel 14:47וּבְמַלְכֵ֤י · the kings
    After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.
  20. 1 Samuel 15:1לְמֶ֔לֶךְ · king
    Then Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you king over His people Israel. Now therefore, listen to the words of the LORD.
  21. 1 Samuel 15:8מֶֽלֶךְ־ · king
    He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
  22. 1 Samuel 15:11לְמֶ֔לֶךְ
    “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.
  23. 1 Samuel 15:17לְמֶ֖לֶךְ · you king
    And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel
  24. 1 Samuel 15:20מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    “But I did obey the LORD,” Saul replied. “I went on the mission that the LORD gave me. I brought back Agag king of Amalek and devoted the Amalekites to destruction.
  25. 1 Samuel 15:23מִמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס · as king
    For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
  26. 1 Samuel 15:26מֶ֖לֶךְ · king
    “I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.”
  27. 1 Samuel 15:32מֶ֣לֶךְ · king
    Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
  28. 1 Samuel 16:1מֶֽלֶךְ׃ · a king
    Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”
  29. 1 Samuel 17:25הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ׀ · the king
    Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”
  30. 1 Samuel 17:55הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · O king
    As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
  31. 1 Samuel 17:56הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · the king
    “Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.
  32. 1 Samuel 18:6הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · King
    As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
  33. 1 Samuel 18:18לַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · of the king
    And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”
  34. 1 Samuel 18:22 (2×)הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king; בַּמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ · become his
    Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
  35. 1 Samuel 18:23בַּמֶּ֔לֶךְ · of the king
    But when Saul’s servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”
  36. 1 Samuel 18:25 (2×)לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ · The king; הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ · on his
    Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
  37. 1 Samuel 18:26בַּמֶּ֑לֶךְ · to become the king’s
    When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,
  38. 1 Samuel 18:27 (2×)לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ · the king’s; בַּמֶּ֑לֶךְ · to become
    David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.
  39. 1 Samuel 19:4הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ · The king
    Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.
  40. 1 Samuel 20:5הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ · the king
    So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
  41. 1 Samuel 20:24הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ · the king
    So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
  42. 1 Samuel 20:25הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ · He
    He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.
  43. 1 Samuel 20:29הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס · the king’s
    …saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
  44. 1 Samuel 21:2הַמֶּלֶךְ֮ · The king
    “The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.