Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H5663
עֶבֶד מֶלֶךְ
Ebed Melekeh'-bed meh'-lek
Ebed-melech
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻEbed Melek
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5663is 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) · H5663
Ebed-Melek, a eunuch of Zedekeah
The King James renders it: Ebed-melech.
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
Ebed Melek is rendered "Ebed-melech". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Jeremiah 38:7Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
Jeremiah 38:7עֶֽבֶד־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twelve of the word's twelve uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Melech6
- Ebed5
- to Ebed1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֶבֶד | ebed | servant/slave | Uses799 |
All 12, 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
- מֶ֨לֶךְ4
- עֶֽבֶד־4
- לְעֶבֶד־1
- מֶ֖לֶךְ1
- מֶ֥לֶךְ1
- עֶבֶד־1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)11HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
Jeremiah
twelve uses
Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
- עֶֽבֶד־ʾeved-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ebed
- מֶ֨לֶךְmelekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Melech
Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and said to the king,
- עֶֽבֶד־ʾeved-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ebed
- מֶ֖לֶךְmelekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Melech
So the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and pull Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”
- עֶֽבֶד־ʾeved-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ebed
- מֶ֥לֶךְmelekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Melech
Then Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king’s palace, to a place below the storehouse. From there he took old rags and worn-out clothes and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.
- עֶֽבֶד־ʾeved-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ebed
- מֶ֨לֶךְmelekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Melech
Ebed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, “Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,
- עֶבֶד־ʾeved-proper noun (a name)tagged: Ebed
- מֶ֨לֶךְmelekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Melech
“Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes.
- לְעֶבֶד־leeved-preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Ebed
- מֶ֨לֶךְmelekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Melech
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.