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H4428Gמֶ֫לֶךְme.lekh

kingPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 38
  2. 14
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 18
  5. 26
  6. 109
  7. 37
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 86
  10. 283
  11. 305
  12. 370
  13. 69
  14. 277
  15. 32
  16. 42
  17. 196
  18. 8
  19. 67
  20. 32
  21. 12
  22. 5
  23. 80
  24. 264
  25. 3
  26. 37
  27. 52
  28. 19
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 8
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. 2
  33. 5
  34. 1
  35. 1
  36. 3
  37. 2
  38. 9
  39. 1

Renderings

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Other meanings of H4428

  • H4428Hהַמֶּלֶךְme.lekh`the king`H:N-MOccurrences: 3
  • H4428Iמֶ֫לֶךְme.lekhKing'sH:N-MOccurrences: 2
  • H4428Jמֶ֫לֶךְme.lekhKing'sH:N-MOccurrences: 1
  • H4428Kמֶ֫לֶךְme.lekhMilcomH:N-MOccurrences: 3
  • H4428Lמֶ֫לֶךְme.lekhKing'sH:N-MOccurrences: 4

2,513 occurrences in 1,912 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. 2 Kings 23:1

    And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

    הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  2. 2 Kings 23:2

    And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the

    הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  3. 2 Kings 23:3

    And the king stood on the platform, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were wr

    הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ (מֶּלֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  4. 2 Kings 23:4

    And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; a

    הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ (מֶּ֡לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  5. 2 Kings 23:5

    And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to offer in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that offered unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellat

    מַלְכֵ֣י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”

  6. 2 Kings 23:11

    And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nethan-melech the officer, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

    מַלְכֵ֨י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”

  7. 2 Kings 23:12

    And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the

    מַלְכֵ֣י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  8. 2 Kings 23:13

    And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the detestation of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the detestation of Moab, and for Milcom

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ (מֶּֽלֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  9. 2 Kings 23:19

    And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

    מַלְכֵ֤י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”

  10. 2 Kings 23:21

    And the king commanded all the people, saying: 'Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.'

    הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙) Me.lekh “king”

  11. 2 Kings 23:22

    For there was not kept such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

    מַלְכֵ֥י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”וּמַלְכֵ֥י (מַלְכֵ֥י) mal.Khei “[the] kings of”

  12. 2 Kings 23:23

    but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

    לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  13. 2 Kings 23:25

    And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

    מֶ֗לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”

  14. 2 Kings 23:28

    Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

    לְמַלְכֵ֥י (מַלְכֵ֥י) mal.Khei “[the] kings of”

  15. 2 Kings 23:29

    In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”מֶ֥לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ (מֶּ֤לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  16. 2 Kings 24:1

    In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

    מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”

  17. 2 Kings 24:5

    Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

    לְמַלְכֵ֥י (מַלְכֵ֥י) mal.Khei “[the] kings of”

  18. 2 Kings 24:7

    And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the Brook of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

    מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”לְמֶ֥לֶךְ (מֶ֥לֶךְ) Me.lekh “[the] king of”

  19. 2 Kings 24:10

    At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”

  20. 2 Kings 24:11

    And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it.

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”

  21. 2 Kings 24:12

    And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”

  22. 2 Kings 24:13

    And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

    הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”

  23. 2 Kings 24:15

    And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

    הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ (מֶּלֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ (מֶּ֜לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  24. 2 Kings 24:16

    And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”

  25. 2 Kings 24:17

    And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”