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Word Study · Strong's H4430 · Hebrew

מֶלֶךְ

melek

meh'-lek

a king

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a king

Rendered in the KJV as

king, royal.

  • 180
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 45
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 180 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 45

  • מַלְכָּא֙22
  • מַלְכָּ֔א20
  • מַלְכָּ֑א16
  • מַלְכָּ֖א14
  • מַלְכָּ֗א14
  • מַלְכָּֽא׃10
  • מַלְכָּ֜א9
  • לְמַלְכָּ֔א6
  • מַלְכָּ֣א6
  • מַלְכִ֖ין6
  • מַלְכָּ֥א4
  • לְמַלְכָּֽא׃3

and 33 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 14

  • king the112
  • king O23
  • to king the17
  • kings9
  • [the] king of5
  • and king the4
  • king2
  • kings the2
  • [are] [the] king of1
  • and a king1
  • and kings1
  • obj. [the] king of1

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

How it parses · 10

  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)135
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)17
  • noun · masculine plural10
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)6
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)4
  • noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)3
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular2
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular1
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • ANcbsd/Ta · 135
  • AR/Ncbsd/Ta · 17
  • ANcmpa · 10
  • ANcbsc · 6
  • AC/Ncbsd/Ta · 4
  • ANcmpd/Ta · 3
  • ANcbsa · 2
  • AC/Ncbsa · 1
  • AC/Ncmpa · 1
  • AR/Ncbsc · 1

All 180, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Daniel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Ezra45 occurrences
Daniel135 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).