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)

Translation

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Old Testament

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Concordance 1,921 verses

2 Kings 22:16 מֶ֥לֶךְ

that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,
2 Kings 22:18 מֶ֣לֶךְ

But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,
2 Kings 22:20 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
2 Kings 23:1 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Kings 23:2 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 23:3 הַ֠מֶּלֶךְ

So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
2 Kings 23:4 הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
2 Kings 23:5 מַלְכֵ֣י

Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Kings 23:11 מַלְכֵ֨י

And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.
2 Kings 23:12 מַלְכֵ֣יהַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
2 Kings 23:13 מֶֽלֶךְ־הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
2 Kings 23:19 מַלְכֵ֤י

Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
2 Kings 23:21 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
2 Kings 23:22 מַלְכֵ֥יוּמַלְכֵ֥י

No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah.
2 Kings 23:23 לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 23:25 מֶ֗לֶךְ

Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.
2 Kings 23:28 לְמַלְכֵ֥י

As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2 Kings 23:29 מֶֽלֶךְ־מֶ֥לֶךְהַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

At the end of Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
2 Kings 24:1 מֶ֣לֶךְ

During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
2 Kings 24:5 לְמַלְכֵ֥י

As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2 Kings 24:7 מֶ֣לֶךְמֶ֣לֶךְלְמֶ֥לֶךְ

Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
2 Kings 24:10 מֶֽלֶךְ־

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
2 Kings 24:11 מֶֽלֶךְ־

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
2 Kings 24:12 מֶֽלֶךְ־מֶ֣לֶךְמֶ֣לֶךְ

Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
2 Kings 24:13 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְמֶֽלֶךְ־

As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
2 Kings 24:15 הַ֠מֶּלֶךְהַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings 24:16 מֶֽלֶךְ־

The king of Babylon also brought into exile to Babylon all seven thousand men of valor and a thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths—all strong and fit for battle.
2 Kings 24:17 מֶֽלֶךְ־

Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2 Kings 24:20 בְּמֶ֥לֶךְ

For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
2 Kings 25:1 מֶֽלֶךְ־

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
2 Kings 25:2 לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
2 Kings 25:4 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
2 Kings 25:5 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.
2 Kings 25:6 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְמֶ֥לֶךְ

The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
2 Kings 25:8 לַמֶּ֖לֶךְמֶֽלֶךְ־מֶֽלֶךְ־

On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
2 Kings 25:9 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
2 Kings 25:11 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.
2 Kings 25:19 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
2 Kings 25:20 מֶ֥לֶךְ

Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
2 Kings 25:21 מֶ֨לֶךְ

There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
2 Kings 25:22 מֶ֣לֶךְ

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over the people he had left behind in the land of Judah.
2 Kings 25:23 מֶֽלֶךְ־

When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.
2 Kings 25:24 מֶ֥לֶךְ

And Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”
2 Kings 25:27 מֶֽלֶךְ־מֶ֨לֶךְמֶֽלֶךְ־

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
2 Kings 25:28 הַמְּלָכִ֛ים

And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
2 Kings 25:30 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.
1 Chronicles 1:43 הַמְּלָכִ֗יםמֶ֖לֶךְ

These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.
1 Chronicles 3:2 מֶ֣לֶךְ

the third was Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;
1 Chronicles 4:23 הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

These were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king.
1 Chronicles 4:41 מֶֽלֶךְ־

These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites and Meunites there in their dwellings, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.