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# אֲחִימֶלֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H288

**Ahimelech** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ahimelech [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/288/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲחִימֶ֫לֶךְ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/288/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (brother of Melek, Ph. חמלך, חמלכת; v. also אחיהו supr.) priest in Saul’s (Dvd’s) time 1 S 21:2(×2), 3, 9; 22:14, 16 (אֲחִימֶ֑לֶךְ) 1 Ch 24:31 ψ 52:2 (title); son of Ahitub 1 S 22:9, 11, (cf. 12), 20; father of Abiathar 1 S 23:6; 30:7; so also 2 S 8:17 𝔖 Ew We Th Dr; where MT אחימ׳ בן־אביתר; whence id. wrongly 1 Ch 24:6, cf. v 4 (אֲח׳ מִבְּנֵי אִיתָמָר) & 18:16 (where read אֲח׳ for אֲב׳). a Hittite 1 S 26:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ahimelech (13); of Ahimelech (3); O Ahimelech (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 8:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.17/#tree)

וְצָד֧וֹק בֶּן־אֲחִיט֛וּב וַאֲחִימֶ֥לֶךְ בֶּן־אֶבְיָתָ֖ר כֹּהֲנִ֑ים וּשְׂרָיָ֖ה סוֹפֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and Zadok the.son of.Ahitub and Ahimelech the.son of.Abiathar \[were\].priests and Seraiah \[was\].secretary

*JPS 1917:* and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;

[1 Samuel 22:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.22.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.22.16/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ מ֥וֹת תָּמ֖וּת אֲחִימֶ֑לֶךְ אַתָּ֖ה וְכָל־בֵּ֥ית אָבִֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the king surely.(die) you.will.die O.Ahimelech you and all the.house your.father your

*JPS 1917:* And the king said: 'Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/288.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/288/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).