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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 Chronicles 28:21

    For Ahaz stripped the house of the LORD, and the house of the king and the princes, and gave thereof unto the king of Assyria; but it helped him not.

    הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”לְמֶ֣לֶךְ (מֶ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “[the] king of”

  2. 2 Chronicles 28:22

    And in the time of his distress did he act even more treacherously against the LORD, this same king Ahaz.

    הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ (מֶּ֥לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  3. 2 Chronicles 28:23

    For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him; and he said: 'Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me.' But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

    מַלְכֵֽי־ mal.khei- “[the] kings of”

  4. 2 Chronicles 28:26

    Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

    מַלְכֵֽי־ mal.khei- “[the] kings of”

  5. 2 Chronicles 28:27

    And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

    מַלְכֵ֣י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”

  6. 2 Chronicles 29:15

    And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

    הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  7. 2 Chronicles 29:18

    Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said: 'We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, even the altar of burnt-offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the table of showbread, with all the vessels thereof.

    הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  8. 2 Chronicles 29:19

    Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away when he acted treacherously, have we prepared and sanctified; and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.'

    הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ (מֶּ֨לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  9. 2 Chronicles 29:20

    Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

    הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  10. 2 Chronicles 29:23

    And they brought near the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the congregation, and they laid their hands upon them;

    הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  11. 2 Chronicles 29:24

    and the priests killed them, and they made a sin-offering with their blood upon the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt-offering and the sin-offering should be made for all Israel.

    הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  12. 2 Chronicles 29:25

    And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of the LORD by His prophets.

    הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  13. 2 Chronicles 29:27

    And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt-offering upon the altar. And when the burnt-offering began, the song of the LORD began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of David king of Israel.

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”

  14. 2 Chronicles 29:29

    And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves and prostrated themselves.

    הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ (מֶּ֛לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  15. 2 Chronicles 29:30

    Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.

    הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ (מֶּ֤לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  16. 2 Chronicles 30:2

    For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

    הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ (מֶּ֧לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  17. 2 Chronicles 30:4

    And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the congregation.

    הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  18. 2 Chronicles 30:6

    So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying: 'Ye children of Israel, turn back unto the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that He may re

    הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”מַלְכֵ֥י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”

  19. 2 Chronicles 30:12

    Also in Judah was the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of the LORD.

    הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ (מֶּ֛לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  20. 2 Chronicles 30:24

    For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation for offerings a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep; and priests sanctified themselves in great numbers.

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”

  21. 2 Chronicles 30:26

    So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

    מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”

  22. 2 Chronicles 31:3

    He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt-offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt-offerings, and the burnt-offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the appointed seasons, as it is written in the La

    הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ (מֶּ֨לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  23. 2 Chronicles 31:13

    And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the rule

    הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  24. 2 Chronicles 32:1

    After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to make a breach therein for himself.

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”

  25. 2 Chronicles 32:4

    So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying: 'Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?'

    מַלְכֵ֣י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”