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Word Study · Strong's H4428 · Hebrew

מֶלֶךְ

melek

meh'-lek

a king

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a king

Rendered in the KJV as

king, royal.

  • 2,525
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 127
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 127

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ80
  • מֶֽלֶךְ־50
  • מֶ֥לֶךְ32
  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ26
  • מֶ֤לֶךְ18
  • מֶ֖לֶךְ16
  • הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ13
  • הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙13
  • הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ13
  • מַלְכֵ֣י13
  • הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ10
  • הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃10

and 115 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 57

  • [the] king of181
  • the king122
  • a king24
  • [the] kings of21
  • the kings16
  • kings12
  • to king12
  • to the king8
  • king its7
  • [the] king6
  • and to king its6
  • king6

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 32

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)184
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular126
  • noun · masculine singular40
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)26
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural17
  • noun · masculine plural16
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular15
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)9
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular9
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular6
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular6
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc · 184
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 126
  • HNcmsa · 40
  • HNcmpc · 26
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 17
  • HNcmpa · 16
  • HR/Ncmsa · 15
  • HR/Ncmsc · 9
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 9
  • HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp3fs · 6
  • HNcmpc/Sp3mp · 6
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 6

The first 500 of 2,525, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis41 occurrences
Exodus14 occurrences
Numbers20 occurrences
Deuteronomy26 occurrences
Joshua109 occurrences
Judges37 occurrences
1 Samuel86 occurrences
2 Samuel100 occurrences
Psalms67 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled מֶלֶךְ

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).