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H4428Gמֶ֫לֶךְme.lekh
kingPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
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Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
And I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, and if your servant has your approval, send me to Judah, to the town where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, so that I may take in hand the building of it.
לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
And the king said to me (the queen being seated by his side), How long will your journey take, and when will you come back? So the king was pleased to send me, and I gave him a fixed time.
הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ (מֶּ֜לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙) Me.lekh “king”
Further, I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, let letters be given to me for the rulers across the river, so that they may let me go through till I come to Judah;
לַמֶּלֶךְ֒ (מֶּלֶךְ֒) me.leKh “king”הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. And the king gave me this, for the hand of my G
לַמֶּ֗לֶךְ (מֶּ֗לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
Then I came to the rulers of the lands across the river and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, a
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
Palal, the son of Uzai, made good the wall opposite the angle and the tower which comes out from the higher part of the king's house, by the open space of the watch. After him was Pedaiah, the son of Parosh.
הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙) Me.lekh “king”
And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (מֶּ֑לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpos
לְמֶ֔לֶךְ (מֶ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
And that you have prophets preaching about you in Jerusalem, and saying, There is a king in Judah: now an account of these things will be sent to the king. So come now, and let us have a discussion.
מֶ֚לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
These are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and taken away by him, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his town;
מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”
And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so they took for their heritage the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.
מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”
So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure
מַלְכֵיהֶם֙ (מַלְכֵי) mal.khei. “kings”
And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on
לִמְלָכֵ֨ינוּ (מְלָכֵ֨י) m.la.Khei. “kings”מַלְכֵ֣י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”
And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.
מְלָכֵ֤ינוּ (מְלָכֵ֤י) me.la.Khei. “kings”
And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.
לַמְּלָכִ֛ים (מְּלָכִ֛ים) me.la.Khim “kings”
For there was an order from the king about them and a regular amount for the music-makers, for their needs day by day.
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (מֶּ֖לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
And Pethahiah, the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah, the son of Judah, was the king's servant in everything to do with the people.
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
But all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, I went to the king; and after some days, I got the king to let me go,
מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (מֶּ֔לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ (מֶּֽלֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”
Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.
מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”מֶ֜לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”מֶ֖לֶךְ Me.lekh “king”
That in those days, when King Ahasuerus was ruling in Shushan, his strong town,
הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”