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# מֶלֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4429

**Melech** — used 2 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

Melech [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4429/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶ֫לֶךְ²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4429/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Micah, a Benjamite (on מ׳ as individ. name v. GrayProp. N. 116, 112 n. 4; cf. Ph. n.pr. מלך (v. Bloch); Sab. n.pr. מלכם CIS iv. 1; Palm. n.pr. מלכו VogPalm. 92 al. Nab. id., EutNab 21, 4 al. VogNab. 1, 2);—1 Ch 8:35 (𝔊 Μελχηλ), 9:41 (𝔊 Μαλαχ; 𝔊L Μελχιηλ in both).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Melech (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 9:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.41/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י מִיכָ֑ה פִּית֥וֹן וָמֶ֖לֶךְ וְתַחְרֵֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Micah \[were\].Pithon and Melech and Tahrea

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Taharea, and Ahaz.

[1 Chronicles 8:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.35/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י מִיכָ֑ה פִּית֥וֹן וָמֶ֖לֶךְ וְתַאְרֵ֥עַ וְאָחָֽז׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Micah \[were\].Pithon and Melech and Tarea and Ahaz

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Micah; Pithon, and Melech, and Taarea, and Ahaz.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4429.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4429/): 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).