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

  1. Esther 6:5 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    So the king’s attendants answered him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” “Bring him in,” ordered the king.

  2. Esther 6:6 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

    Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”

  3. Esther 6:7 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    And Haman told the king, “For the man whom the king is delighted to honor,

  4. Esther 6:8 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    have them bring a royal robe that the king himself has worn and a horse on which the king himself has ridden—one with a royal crest placed on its head.

  5. Esther 6:9 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!’”

  6. Esther 6:10 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְהַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

    “Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”

  7. Esther 6:11 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”

  8. Esther 6:12 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

    Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief.

  9. Esther 6:14 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

  10. Esther 7:1 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

    So the king and Haman went to dine with Esther the queen,

  11. Esther 7:2 הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ

    and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”

  12. Esther 7:3 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.

  13. Esther 7:4 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

    For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

  14. Esther 7:5 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”

  15. Esther 7:6 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.

  16. Esther 7:7 וְהַמֶּ֜לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

    In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.

  17. Esther 7:8 וְהַמֶּ֡לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

  18. Esther 7:9 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְהַמֶּ֗לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.

  19. Esther 7:10 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

  20. Esther 8:1 הַמֶּ֤לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.

  21. Esther 8:2 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

    The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.

  22. Esther 8:3 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

  23. Esther 8:4 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

    The king extended the gold scepter toward Esther, and she arose and stood before the king.

  24. Esther 8:5 הַמֶּ֨לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

    “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

  25. Esther 8:7 הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

    So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.

  26. Esther 8:8 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֗לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”

  27. Esther 8:9 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan ), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush —writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

  28. Esther 8:10 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְהַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

    Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.

  29. Esther 8:11 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

    By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

  30. Esther 8:12 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

  31. Esther 8:14 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

    The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.

  32. Esther 8:15 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ

    Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.

  33. Esther 8:17 הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

    In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

  34. Esther 9:1 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

    On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.

  35. Esther 9:2 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.

  36. Esther 9:3 לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.

  37. Esther 9:4 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

    For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.

  38. Esther 9:11 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

    On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,

  39. Esther 9:12 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

    who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”

  40. Esther 9:13 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

  41. Esther 9:14 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

    So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

  42. Esther 9:16 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

    The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

  43. Esther 9:20 הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,

  44. Esther 9:25 הַמֶּלֶךְ֒

    But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

  45. Esther 10:1 הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ

    Now King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the land, even to its farthest shores.

  46. Esther 10:2 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְלְמַלְכֵ֖י

    And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

  47. Esther 10:3 לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

    For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.

  48. Job 3:14 מְ֭לָכִים

    with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,

  49. Job 12:18 מְלָכִ֣ים

    He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.

  50. Job 15:24 כְּמֶ֤לֶךְ׀

    Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

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