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)

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Concordance 1,921 verses

2 Kings 5:1 מֶֽלֶךְ־

Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
2 Kings 5:5 מֶֽלֶךְ־מֶ֣לֶךְ

“Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing.
2 Kings 5:6 מֶ֥לֶךְ

And the letter that he took to the king of Israel stated: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
2 Kings 5:7 מֶֽלֶךְ־

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
2 Kings 5:8 מֶֽלֶךְ־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
2 Kings 6:8 וּמֶ֣לֶךְ

Now the king of Aram was at war against Israel. After consulting with his servants, he said, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
2 Kings 6:9 מֶ֤לֶךְ

Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful passing by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
2 Kings 6:10 מֶ֣לֶךְ

So the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had pointed out. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.
2 Kings 6:11 מֶֽלֶךְ־מֶ֥לֶךְ

For this reason the king of Aram became enraged and called his servants to demand of them, “Tell me, which one of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
2 Kings 6:12 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְלְמֶ֣לֶךְ

But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
2 Kings 6:21 מֶֽלֶךְ־

And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”
2 Kings 6:24 מֶֽלֶךְ־

Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.
2 Kings 6:26 מֶ֣לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
2 Kings 6:28 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’
2 Kings 6:30 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by on the wall, the people saw the sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.
2 Kings 7:2 לַמֶּלֶךְ֩

But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
2 Kings 7:6 מֶ֨לֶךְמַלְכֵ֧ימַלְכֵ֥י

For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
2 Kings 7:9 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
2 Kings 7:11 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported to the king’s household.
2 Kings 7:12 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
2 Kings 7:14 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”
2 Kings 7:15 לַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
2 Kings 7:17 וְהַמֶּלֶךְ֩הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Now the king had appointed the officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king had come to him.
2 Kings 7:18 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”
2 Kings 8:3 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

At the end of seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to the king to appeal for her house and her land.
2 Kings 8:4 וְהַמֶּ֗לֶךְ

Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
2 Kings 8:5 לַמֶּלֶךְ֮הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”
2 Kings 8:6 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְהַמֶּלֶךְ֩

When the king asked the woman, she confirmed it. So the king appointed for her an officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, along with all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the country until now.”
2 Kings 8:7 מֶֽלֶךְ־

Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”
2 Kings 8:8 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
2 Kings 8:9 מֶֽלֶךְ־

So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
2 Kings 8:13 מֶ֥לֶךְ

“But how could your servant, a mere dog, do such a monstrous thing?” said Hazael. And Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”
2 Kings 8:16 מֶ֣לֶךְמֶ֣לֶךְמֶ֥לֶךְ

In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.
2 Kings 8:18 מַלְכֵ֣י

And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Kings 8:20 מֶֽלֶךְ׃

In the days of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own king.
2 Kings 8:23 לְמַלְכֵ֥י

As for the rest of the acts of Jehoram, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2 Kings 8:25 מֶ֣לֶךְמֶ֥לֶךְ

In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
2 Kings 8:26 מֶ֥לֶךְ

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
2 Kings 8:28 מֶֽלֶךְ־

Then Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.
2 Kings 8:29 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְמֶ֣לֶךְמֶ֣לֶךְ

So King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to visit Joram son of Ahab, because Joram had been wounded.
2 Kings 9:3 לְמֶ֖לֶךְ

Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run. Do not delay!”
2 Kings 9:6 לְמֶ֛לֶךְ

So Jehu got up and went into the house, where the young prophet poured the oil on his head and declared, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the LORD’s people Israel.
2 Kings 9:12 לְמֶ֖לֶךְ

“That is a lie!” they said. “Tell us now!” So Jehu answered, “He talked to me about this and that, and he said, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’”
2 Kings 9:14 מֶֽלֶךְ־

Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,
2 Kings 9:15 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְמֶ֣לֶךְ

but King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had suffered at the hands of the Arameans in the battle against Hazael their king.) So Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then do not let anyone escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel.”
2 Kings 9:16 מֶ֣לֶךְ

Then Jehu got into his chariot and went to Jezreel, because Joram was laid up there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.
2 Kings 9:18 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”
2 Kings 9:19 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

So the king sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”
2 Kings 9:21 מֶֽלֶךְ־מֶֽלֶךְ־

“Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
2 Kings 9:27 מֶֽלֶךְ־

When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.