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

2 Samuel 13:6 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְהַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
2 Samuel 13:13 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
2 Samuel 13:18 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

So Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.
2 Samuel 13:21 וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ

When King David heard all this, he was furious.
2 Samuel 13:23 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
2 Samuel 13:24 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”
2 Samuel 13:25 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.
2 Samuel 13:26 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

“If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.
2 Samuel 13:27 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

But Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.
2 Samuel 13:29 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ

So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.
2 Samuel 13:30 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

While they were on the way, a report reached David: “Absalom has struck down all the sons of the king; not one of them is left!”
2 Samuel 13:31 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
2 Samuel 13:32 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
2 Samuel 13:33 הַמֶּ֤לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

So now, my lord the king, do not take to heart the report that all the sons of the king are dead. Only Amnon is dead.”
2 Samuel 13:35 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

So Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”
2 Samuel 13:36 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.
2 Samuel 13:37 מֶ֣לֶךְ

Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.
2 Samuel 13:39 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
2 Samuel 14:1 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
2 Samuel 14:3 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
2 Samuel 14:4 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
2 Samuel 14:5 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
2 Samuel 14:8 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
2 Samuel 14:9 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֛לֶךְוְהַמֶּ֥לֶךְ

But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
2 Samuel 14:10 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

“If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”
2 Samuel 14:11 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
2 Samuel 14:12 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
2 Samuel 14:13 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
2 Samuel 14:15 הַמֶּ֤לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
2 Samuel 14:16 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
2 Samuel 14:17 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
2 Samuel 14:18 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
2 Samuel 14:19 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֜לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
2 Samuel 14:21 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

Then the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
2 Samuel 14:22 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
2 Samuel 14:24 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

But the king added, “He may return to his house, but he must not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, but he did not see the king.
2 Samuel 14:26 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
2 Samuel 14:28 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.
2 Samuel 14:29 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.
2 Samuel 14:32 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

“Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”
2 Samuel 14:33 הַמֶּלֶךְ֮הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.
2 Samuel 15:2 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”
2 Samuel 15:3 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”
2 Samuel 15:6 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:7 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.
2 Samuel 15:9 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

“Go in peace,” said the king. So Absalom got up and went to Hebron.
2 Samuel 15:15 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

The king’s servants replied, “Whatever our lord the king decides, we are your servants.”
2 Samuel 15:16 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְהַמֶּ֗לֶךְ

Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.
2 Samuel 15:17 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

So the king set out with all the people following him. He stopped at the last house,
2 Samuel 15:18 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.