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Strong's #4428 - מֶלֶךְ
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2340) klm (מלכ MLK) AC: Reign CO: King AB: Kingdom: [from: kl- walking among the people]
V) klm (מלכ MLK) - Reign: To reign over a kingdom as king or queen. KJV (348): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Hophal) reign, king, made, queen, consult, rule, set - Strongs: H4427 (מָלַךְ)
Nm) klm (מלכ MLK) - I. King:[Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Counsel:[Aramaic only] KJV (2704): king, royal, counsel - Strongs: H4428 (מֶלֶךְ), H4430 (מֶלֶךְ), H4431 (מְלַךְ)
Nf1) eklm (מלכה MLKH) - Queen: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (37): queen - Strongs: H4433 (מַלְכָּה), H4436 (מַלְכָּה)
Nf2) tklm (מלכת MLKT) - Queen: KJV (5): queen - Strongs: H4446 (מְלֶכֶת)
Nf3) tfklm (מלכות MLKWT) - Kingdom: [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (148): kingdom, reign, royal, empire, estate, realm, kingly - Strongs: H4437 (מַלְכוּ), H4438 (מַלְכֻוָּה)
af1) eklmm (ממלכה MMLKH) - Kingdom: KJV (117): kingdom, royal, reign - Strongs: H4467 (מַמְלָכָה)
af3) tfklmm (ממלכות MMLKWT) - Kingdom: KJV (9): kingdom, reign - Strongs: H4468 (מַמְלָכוּת)
df1) ekflm (מלוכה MLWKH) - Kingdom: KJV (24): kingdom, royal - Strongs: H4410 (מְלוּכָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
king (original Hebrew *מַלִח inferred, Lag BN 73 Ba NB § 112 WMM As. u. Europ.76); Sabean מלכן SabDenkm No. 1; construct מלך, plural אמלך CIS iv 37; compare Ethiopic 
God (and Nö l.c.); Aramaic 
, מְלֵיךְ; Palmyrene מלך מלכא Vog No. 28; Nabataean מלכא Eut Nab. 1); — ׳מ absolute Genesis 14:7 + (insert also 2 Samuel 13:17 ᵐ5 Th We Dr Kit Bu, and 2 Samuel 13:34 ᵐ5 We Dr Kit Bu); in p. always מֶ֑לֶךְ Genesis 49:20 238t. (so also proper name in מֶלֶךְ-); construct Genesis 14:1 +; suffix מַלְכִּי 2 Samuel 19:44 6t., etc.; plural מְלָכִים Genesis 14:9 +; מְלָכִין Proverbs 31:3; construct מַלְכֵי Genesis 17:16 +; suffix מְלָכֶיהָ Isaiah 7:16 3t.; מַלְכֵיהֶם Deuteronomy 7:24 16t., etc.; — 1 king: of Egypt Genesis 39:20f.; Exodus 1:8f.; Deuteronomy 11:3; 1 Kings 3:1; of Mesopotamia, Shinar, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, etc. Judges 3:8,10; Genesis 14:1f.; 2 Kings 15:19,20,29; 2 Kings 17:3f.; 2 Kings 18:13f.; 2 Kings 24:1,11f.; Ezra 1:1f.; Ezra 4:3f.; Esther 1:2 +, 1 Kings 11:18,40; 1 Kings 14:25; 2 Kings 17:4f.; 2 Kings 23:29 +; of Canaan, Philistia, Edom, Moab, etc. (often of single city): Genesis 14:2f.; Genesis 14:18; Genesis 20:2; Genesis 26:1,8; Genesis 36:31; Numbers 20:14; Numbers 21:1f.; Numbers 22:4,10; Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 3:1f.; Joshua 2:2 (often in Joshua), Judges 1:7; Judges 5:19; Judges 8:5,12; Judges 11:12f.; 2 Kings 3:4f. +; of Aram, Hamath, etc. 2 Samuel 8:3f. 2 Samuel 8:9; 1 Kings 15:18; 1 Kings 20:1f.; 1 Kings 22:3; 2 Kings 5:1f.; 2 Kings 8:7f.; 2 Kings 8:29; 2 Kings 9:14,15; 2 Kings 15:37; 2 Kings 16:5f. +; of Tyre, etc. 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:15; 1 Kings 9:11,16+, etc.; especially of Israel (undivided, and of both divisions) Genesis 36:31; Numbers 23:21; Numbers 24:7; Deuteronomy 17:14f.; Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1; Judges 21:25; 1 Samuel 2:10; 1 Samuel 8:5f.; 2 Samuel 2:4f.; 1 Kings 1:33,34f. + very often; compare also Judges 9:5. — 2 Samuel 18:29b strike out ׳הַמּ We Klo Dr Kit Bu. Note that in early books המלך דוד is nearly always said; in late books usually המלך׳שׁלמה וגו) דוד; compare Aramaic כּוֺרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא, etc.
2 of Davidic king, as under divine protection, 1 Samuel 2:10 ("" מְשִׁיחוֺ), Psalm 2:6; Psalm 18:51; Psalm 89:19; Psalm 61:7, compare Psalm 99:4; so in (Messianic) prediction Hosea 3:5; Isaiah 32:1; Jeremiah 23:5; Ezekiel 37:22,24; Zechariah 9:9.
3 used of׳י as king of Israel 1 Samuel 12:12; in poetry Deuteronomy 33:5 compare Psalm 5:3; Psalm 10:16; Psalm 29:10; Psalm 44:5; Psalm 48:3; Psalm 68:25; Psalm 74:12; Psalm 84:4; Psalm 145:1; Psalm 149:2; Isaiah 41:21; Isaiah 43:15; Isaiah 44:6; Zephaniah 3:15; מֶלֶךְ הַכָּבוֺד Psalm 24:7; Psalm 24:8; Psalm 24:9; Psalm 24:10 (twice in verse); universal king Psalm 47:3; Psalm 47:8; Psalm 95:3; Psalm 98:6; Jeremiah 10:7,10, compare Jeremiah 46:18; Jeremiah 48:15; Jeremiah 51:57; Zechariah 14:9,16,17; Malachi 1:14; of false god Amos 5:26.
4 in fable, king of trees Judges 9:8,15 figurative of crocodile Job 41:26; אֵין לָאַרְבֶּה׳מ Proverbs 30:27; of death, מֶלֶךְ בַּלָּהוֺת Job 18:14.
5 combinations are: —
a.הַגָּדוֺל ׳הַמּ 2 Kings 18:19,28 = Isaiah 36:4,13 (of Assyrian king: compare Assyrian šarru rabu); גָּדוֺל׳מ Ecclesiastes 9:14 (indefinite); of ׳י Malachi 1:14, עַלכֿלאֿלהים׳ג ׳מ Psalm 95:3; ׳מעוֺלָם Jeremiah 10:10 (of ׳י); מְלָכִים׳מ Ezekiel 26:7 (king of Babylon)
b. יְחִי הַמֶּלֶךְ 1 Samuel 10:24; 2 Samuel 16:16 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 1:34,39; 2 Kings 11:12; 2 Chronicles 23:11; מֶלֶךְ בירושׁלם Ecclesiastes 1:1, compare Ecclesiastes 15:26; 2 Samuel 5:2; 1 Kings 14:2; 1 Chronicles 29:25; 2 Samuel 2:11 (׳בחברון עלהֿיה מ) 1 Kings 11:37; 2 Chronicles 28:4; Ecclesiastes 1:12.
c. following a verb (one or two accusative) על׳שִׂים מ Deuteronomy 17:14,15 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 10:19; ׳שִׂים לָנוּ מ 1 Samuel 8:5; ׳שִׂים לְמ 1 Kings 10:9; לְ׳נָתַן מ 1 Samuel 8:6; Hosea 13:10,11; נָתַן עַל 1 Samuel 12:13; 2 Chronicles 2:10; Nehemiah 9:37; Nehemiah 13:26; הִמְלִיךְ לְמֶלֶךְ Judges 9:6; 1 Samuel 15:11; על׳הִמְלִיךְ מ 1 Samuel 12:1; לְ׳הִמְלִיךְ מ 1 Samuel 8:22; ׳מָשַׁח מעַל Judges 9:8; ׳מָשַׁח לְמ 1 Kings 1:45; עַל׳מָשַׁךְ לְמ Judges 9:15; 1 Samuel 15:1,17; 2 Samuel 2:4; 2 Samuel 5:3,12; 2 Samuel 12:7; 1 Kings 1:34; 1 Chronicles 11:3; 1 Chronicles 14:8; יִהְיֶה על׳מ 1 Samuel 8:19; על׳בִּקֵּשׁ למ 2 Samuel 3:17; ׳הֵכִין לְמעל 2 Samuel 5:12; 1 Chronicles 14:2; על׳הֵקִים מ 1 Kings 14:14; Deuteronomy 28:36; ׳תַּחַת וגו׳לְמ ׳יָשַׁב עַלכִּֿסֵּא י 1 Chronicles 29:23, compare Proverbs 20:8; אלהיך׳לְי ׳נָתַן עַלכִּֿסֵּא לְמ 2 Chronicles 9:8.
d.מַעֲדַנֵּימֶֿלךְ Genesis 49:20 royal dainties, figurative; ׳מִשְׁתֵּה הַמּ 1 Samuel 25:36 royal feast (in simile); ׳אֶבֶן הַמּ 2 Samuel 14:26 king's weight; ׳יַדהַֿמּ 1 Kings 10:13 royal bounty (in simile); ׳גִּזֵּי הַמּ Amos 7:1 king's mowings; ׳מִקְדַּשׁ מ Amos 7:13 royal sanctuary; עֲטֶרֶת מַלְכָּם 2 Samuel 12:30 crown of their king = 1 Chronicles 20:2 (but read מִלְכֹּםᵐ5 We Klo Dr Kit Kau — not Bu Kit Chr. Hpt); compare also בַּיִת, עֵמֶק, גַּן, שָׁוֵה, etc. — proper name אבימלך, אחימלך, אלימלך, מלך, נתן, מלך, עבד, see below אב, אח, etc.
מַלְכִישׁוּעַ proper name, masculine son of Saul my king (= ׳י) is opulence, compare Gray Prop. N. 147); — 1 Samuel 14:49; 1 Samuel 31:2; 1 Chronicles 8:33; 1 Chronicles 9:39; 1 Chronicles 10:2 (in Chronicles מַלְכִּישֿׁוּעַ). ᵐ5 Μελχεισα, Μελχεσουε, etc.
מֶלֶךְ [so also in pause], with suff. מַלְכִּי, pl. מְלָכִים, once מְלָכִין Proverbs 31:3, and, by insertion of a mater lectionis א, מְלָאכִים 2 Samuel 11:1 [כתיב], m.
(1) a king. (Arab. مَلِكُ, مَالِكُ, rarely مَلْكُ Syr. ܡܰܠܟܳܐ.) Followed by a genit. of people or land, as מֶלֶךְ סְדֹם Genesis 14:2 מֶלֶךְ יְהוּדָה, מֶלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל; but Jehovah’s king, Psalms 2:6, 18:51, is the king of Israel [Messiah] appointed by Jehovah.-The name of king is often applied
(a) to Jehovah, as being the king of Israel, and of individual Israelites, Psalms 5:3, 10:16 44:5 48:3 (in which passage he is called the great king); 68:25 74:12 84:4 Deuteronomy 33:5 or of the whole earth, Psalms 47:3, Psalms 47:8, compare מֶלֶךְ יַעֲקֹב Isaiah 41:21 מֶלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל 44:6, of Jehovah.
(b) to idols, when those who worship them are the speakers, Isaiah 8:21; Amos 5:26; Zephaniah 1:5, compare βασιλεύς, II. γ́ 351; π́ 233. מֶלֶךְ מְלָכִים king of kings is a title of the king of Babylonia, Ezekiel 26:7 (see Ch.); הַמֶּלֶךְ הַגָּדוֹל the great king, a title of the king of Assyria, Isaiah 36:4 (compare βασιλεὺς ὁ μέγας, μέγας βασιλεύς, often in Aristophanes and Plato, of the king of Persia, and Syr. ܡܠܟܐ ܪܒܐ, in Barhebr. of the Roman emperor). Farther, kings are sometimes introduced as leaders of armies, Job 15:24, 18:14 30:15.
(2) [Melech], pr.n. m. 1 Chronicles 8:35, 9:41. Also with the art. הַמֶּלֶךְ Jeremiah 36:26, 38:6.
מֶלֶךְ emphat. מַלְכָּא, מַלְכָּה; pl. מַלְכִּין, and (in the Hebrew mode) מַלְכִּים Ezra 4:13, Ch. king. מֶלֶךְ מַלְכַּיָּא king of kings, of the king of Babylonia, Daniel 2:37 (compare Ezekiel 26:7); of Persia, Ezra 7:12, the latter of which is now called شا هنشاه Shahinshah, i.e. king of kings. The same title of honour was given to the kings of Egypt, the Moguls, the Parthians (see my Comment. on Isaiah 10:8), the Ethiopians (see Axum. Inscr. in Buttmann’s Museum für Alterthumswiss. vol. i.).- Daniel 7:17, in prophetic language מַלְכִּין kings, is put for kingdoms.
