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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. Ecclesiastes 5:8

    But the profit of a land every way is a king that maketh himself servant to the field.

    מֶ֥לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”

  2. Ecclesiastes 8:2

    I counsel thee: keep the king's command, and that in regard of the oath of God.

    מֶ֣לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”

  3. Ecclesiastes 8:4

    Forasmuch as the king's word hath power; and who may say unto him: 'What doest thou?'

    מֶ֖לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”

  4. Ecclesiastes 9:14

    there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it;

    מֶ֤לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”

  5. Ecclesiastes 10:16

    Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a boy, and thy princes feast in the morning!

    שֶׁמַּלְכֵּ֖ךְ (מַּלְכֵּ֖) mal.Ke “king”

  6. Ecclesiastes 10:17

    Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes eat in due season, in strength, and not in drunkenness!

    שֶׁמַּלְכֵּ֖ךְ (מַּלְכֵּ֖) mal.Ke “king”

  7. Ecclesiastes 10:20

    Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

    מֶ֚לֶךְ Me.lekh “a king”

  8. Song of Songs 1:4

    Draw me, we will run after thee; the king hath brought me into his chambers; we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will find thy love more fragrant than wine! sincerely do they love thee.

    הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ (מֶּ֜לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  9. Song of Songs 1:12

    While the king sat at his table, my spikenard sent forth its fragrance.

    שֶׁ֤הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ (מֶּ֙לֶךְ֙) Me.lekh “king”

  10. Song of Songs 3:9

    King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon.

    הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  11. Song of Songs 3:11

    Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and gaze upon king Solomon, even upon the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

    בַּמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  12. Song of Songs 7:6

    Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof.

    מֶ֖לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king”

  13. Isaiah 1:1

    THE VISION of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

    מַלְכֵ֥י mal.Khei “[the] kings of”

  14. Isaiah 6:1

    In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.

    הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (מֶּ֣לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  15. Isaiah 6:5

    Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

    הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ (מֶּ֛לֶךְ) Me.lekh “king”

  16. Isaiah 7:1

    And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it; but could not prevail against it.

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

  17. Isaiah 7:6

    Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel;

    מֶ֙לֶךְ֙ Me.lekh “a king”

  18. Isaiah 7:16

    Yea, before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou hast a horror of shall be forsaken.

    מְלָכֶֽיהָ׃ (מְלָכֶֽי) me.la.Khei. “kings”

  19. Isaiah 7:17

    The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.'

    מֶ֥לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”

  20. Isaiah 7:20

    In that day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also sweep away the beard.

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

  21. Isaiah 8:4

    For before the child shall have knowledge to cry: My father, and: My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.'

    מֶ֥לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”

  22. Isaiah 8:7

    Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, mighty and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks;

    מֶ֥לֶךְ Me.lekh “[the] king of”

  23. Isaiah 8:21

    And they shall pass this way that are sore bestead and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and, whether they turn their faces upward,

    בְּמַלְכּ֛וֹ (מַלְכּ֛) mal.K “king”

  24. Isaiah 10:8

    For he saith: 'Are not my princes all of them kings?

    מְלָכִֽים׃ me.la.Khim “kings”

  25. Isaiah 10:12

    Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed His whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.

    מֶֽלֶךְ־ Me.lekh- “[the] king of”