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 19:17 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king
2 Samuel 19:18 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
2 Samuel 19:19 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
2 Samuel 19:20 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
2 Samuel 19:22 מֶ֥לֶךְ

And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
2 Samuel 19:23 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore an oath to him.
2 Samuel 19:24 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Then Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.
2 Samuel 19:25 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”
2 Samuel 19:26 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,
2 Samuel 19:27 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
2 Samuel 19:28 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃פ

For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
2 Samuel 19:29 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
2 Samuel 19:30 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּ֛לֶך

And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
2 Samuel 19:31 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and send him on his way from there.
2 Samuel 19:32 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 19:33 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”
2 Samuel 19:34 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
2 Samuel 19:35 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
2 Samuel 19:36 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
2 Samuel 19:37 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
2 Samuel 19:38 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ

The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”
2 Samuel 19:39 וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְהַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.
2 Samuel 19:40 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham crossed over with him. All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel escorted the king.
2 Samuel 19:41 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְהַמֶּ֡לֶךְהַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
2 Samuel 19:42 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the king’s expense or received anything for ourselves?”
2 Samuel 19:43 בַמֶּלֶךְ֮מַלְכִּ֑י

“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 20:2 בְמַלְכָּ֔ם

So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 20:3 הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ

When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
2 Samuel 20:4 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙

Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
2 Samuel 20:21 בַּמֶּ֣לֶךְ

That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
2 Samuel 20:22 הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 21:2 הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)
2 Samuel 21:5 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
2 Samuel 21:6 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.
2 Samuel 21:7 הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.
2 Samuel 21:8 הַמֶּ֡לֶךְ

But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
2 Samuel 21:14 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.
2 Samuel 22:51 מַלְכּ֑וֹ

Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
2 Samuel 24:2 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
2 Samuel 24:3 הַמֶּ֗לֶךְהַמֶּ֖לֶךְהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
2 Samuel 24:4 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army departed from the presence of the king to count the troops of Israel.
2 Samuel 24:9 הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ

And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.
2 Samuel 24:20 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙לַמֶּ֛לֶךְ

When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.
2 Samuel 24:21 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
2 Samuel 24:22 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ

Araunah said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever seems good and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
2 Samuel 24:23 הַמֶּ֖לֶךְלַמֶּ֑לֶךְסהַמֶּ֔לֶךְ

O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”
2 Samuel 24:24 הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ

“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
1 Kings 1:1 וְהַמֶּ֤לֶךְ

Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
1 Kings 1:2 הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙הַמֶּ֔לֶךְהַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

So his servants said to him, “Let us search for a young virgin for our lord the king, to attend to him and care for him and lie by his side to keep him warm.”
1 Kings 1:3 לַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.