מֶ֫לֶךְ

me.lekh

Hebrew H4428 Noun, masculine 2,525 occurrences in 1,921 verses

מֶ֫לֶךְ king

1. king

Aramaic equivalent: me.lekh (מֶ֫לֶךְ "king" H4430)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 1,921 verses

1 Kings 2:46 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ

Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei down, and he died. Thus the kingdom was firmly established in the hand of Solomon.
1 Kings 3:1 מֶ֣לֶךְ

Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
1 Kings 3:4 הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
1 Kings 3:13 בַּמְּלָכִ֖ים

Moreover, I will give you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that during all your days no man in any kingdom will be your equal.
1 Kings 3:16 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
1 Kings 3:22 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

“No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.
1 Kings 3:23 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Then the king replied, “This woman says, ‘My son is alive and yours is dead,’ but that woman says, ‘No, your son is dead and mine is alive.’”
1 Kings 3:24 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

The king continued, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought him a sword,
1 Kings 3:25 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
1 Kings 3:26 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ

Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”
1 Kings 3:27 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”
1 Kings 3:28 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
1 Kings 4:1 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְמֶ֖לֶךְ

So King Solomon ruled over Israel,
1 Kings 4:5 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the governors; Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to the king;
1 Kings 4:7 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,
1 Kings 4:19 מֶ֣לֶךְמֶ֣לֶךְ

Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.
1 Kings 4:24 מַלְכֵ֖י

For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates —over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza—and he had peace on all sides.
1 Kings 4:27 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ־

Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
1 Kings 4:34 מַלְכֵ֣י

So men of all nations came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1 Kings 5:1 מֶֽלֶךְ־לְמֶ֖לֶךְ

Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.
1 Kings 5:13 הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ

Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
1 Kings 5:17 הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ

And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
1 Kings 6:2 הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
1 Kings 7:13 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.
1 Kings 7:14 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.
1 Kings 7:40 לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:
1 Kings 7:45 לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
1 Kings 7:46 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.
1 Kings 7:51 הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 8:1 הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
1 Kings 8:2 הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.
1 Kings 8:5 וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
1 Kings 8:14 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all
1 Kings 8:62 וְֽהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.
1 Kings 8:63 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 8:64 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
1 Kings 8:66 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
1 Kings 9:1 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
1 Kings 9:10 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
1 Kings 9:11 מֶֽלֶךְ־הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ

King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
1 Kings 9:14 לַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
1 Kings 9:15 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
1 Kings 9:16 מֶֽלֶךְ־

Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
1 Kings 9:26 הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ

King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
1 Kings 9:28 הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents —and delivered it to Solomon.
1 Kings 10:3 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain.
1 Kings 10:6 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your words and wisdom is true.
1 Kings 10:9 לְמֶ֔לֶךְ

Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
1 Kings 10:10 לַמֶּ֜לֶךְלַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was such an abundance of spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
1 Kings 10:12 הַ֠מֶּלֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen to this day.)