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 Chronicles 29:9 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.
1 Chronicles 29:20 וְלַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Then David said to the whole assembly, “Blessed be the LORD your God.” So the whole assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers. They bowed down and paid homage to the LORD and to the king.
1 Chronicles 29:23 לְמֶ֛לֶךְ

So Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of his father David. He prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.
1 Chronicles 29:24 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

All the officials and mighty men, as well as all of King David’s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.
1 Chronicles 29:25 מֶ֛לֶךְ

The LORD highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him royal majesty such as had not been bestowed on any king in Israel before him.
1 Chronicles 29:29 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are indeed written in the Chronicles of Samuel the Seer, the Chronicles of Nathan the Prophet, and the Chronicles of Gad the Seer,
2 Chronicles 1:12 לַמְּלָכִים֙

therefore wisdom and knowledge have been granted to you. And I will also give you riches and wealth and honor unlike anything given to the kings before you or after you.”
2 Chronicles 1:14 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 1:15 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
2 Chronicles 1:16 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
2 Chronicles 1:17 מַלְכֵ֧יוּמַלְכֵ֥י

A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.
2 Chronicles 2:3 מֶֽלֶךְ־

Then Solomon sent word to Hiram king of Tyre: “Do for me as you did for my father David when you sent him cedars to build himself a house to live in.
2 Chronicles 2:11 מֶֽלֶךְ־מֶֽלֶךְ׃

Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”
2 Chronicles 2:12 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

And Hiram added: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth! He has given King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
2 Chronicles 4:11 לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:
2 Chronicles 4:16 לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.
2 Chronicles 4:17 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah.
2 Chronicles 5:3 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

So all the men of Israel came together to the king at the feast in the seventh month.
2 Chronicles 5:6 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.
2 Chronicles 6:3 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all
2 Chronicles 7:4 וְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.
2 Chronicles 7:5 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
2 Chronicles 7:6 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ

The priests stood at their posts, as did the Levites with the musical instruments of the LORD, which King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD and with which David had offered praise, saying, “For His loving devotion endures forever.” Across from the Levites, the priests sounded trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.
2 Chronicles 7:11 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,
2 Chronicles 8:10 לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

They were also the chief officers for King Solomon: 250 supervisors.
2 Chronicles 8:11 מֶֽלֶךְ־

Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
2 Chronicles 8:15 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

They did not turn aside from the king’s command regarding the priests or the Levites or any matter concerning the treasuries.
2 Chronicles 8:18 הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:5 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your words and wisdom is true.
2 Chronicles 9:8 לְמֶ֔לֶךְלְמֶ֔לֶךְ

Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and righteousness.”
2 Chronicles 9:9 לַמֶּ֜לֶךְלַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:11 הַ֠מֶּלֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

The king made the algum 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 anything like them been seen in the land of Judah.)
2 Chronicles 9:12 וְהַמֶּ֨לֶךְהַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired—whatever she asked—far more than she had brought the king. Then she left and returned to her own country, along with her servants.
2 Chronicles 9:14 מַלְכֵ֤י

not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:15 הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.
2 Chronicles 9:16 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
2 Chronicles 9:17 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
2 Chronicles 9:20 הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:21 לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles 9:22 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְמַלְכֵ֣י

So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
2 Chronicles 9:23 מַלְכֵ֣י

All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
2 Chronicles 9:25 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:26 הַמְּלָכִ֑ים

He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 9:27 הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
2 Chronicles 10:2 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 10:6 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
2 Chronicles 10:12 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
2 Chronicles 10:13 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
2 Chronicles 10:15 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
2 Chronicles 10:16 הַמֶּלֶךְ֮הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ׀

When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So all the Israelites went home,