Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H458
אֱלִימֶלֶךְ
Elimelekel-ee-meh'-lek
Elimelech
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼĔlîymelek
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H458is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H458
Elimelek, an Israelite
The King James renders it: Elimelech.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Elimelek is rendered "Elimelech". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Six of the uses stand in Ruth, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ruth 1:2The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
Ruth 1:2אֱֽלִימֶ֡לֶךְ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's six uses are in Ruth.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Elimelech4
- to Elimelech2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֱלִיל | elil | idol | Uses20 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֱֽלִימֶ֡לֶךְ1
- אֱלִימֶ֖לֶךְ1
- אֱלִימֶ֑לֶךְ1
- אֱלִימֶֽלֶךְ׃1
- לֶאֱלִימֶ֑לֶךְ1
- לֶֽאֱלִימֶ֔לֶךְ1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)4HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npm
Ruth
six uses
The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
- אֱֽלִימֶ֡לֶךְʾelimelekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Elimelech
Then Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,
- אֱלִימֶ֖לֶךְʾelimelekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Elimelech
Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
- אֱלִימֶ֑לֶךְʾelimelekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Elimelech
So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
- אֱלִימֶֽלֶךְ׃ʾelimelekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Elimelech
And he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.
- לֶאֱלִימֶ֑לֶךְleelimelekhpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Elimelech
At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.
- לֶֽאֱלִימֶ֔לֶךְleelimelekhpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Elimelech
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.