Strong's #288: 'Achiymelek (pronounced akh-ee-meh'-lek)

from 251 and 4428; brother of (the) king; Achimelek, the name of an Israelite and of a Hittite:--Ahimelech.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ăchı̂ymelek

Ahimelech = "my brother is king" or "brother of Melek"

1) a priest murdered by Doeg at Saul' s command, for supposedly assisting David

2) a Hittite warrior under David

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H251 and H4428

Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

 

1 Samuel 21:1: "to the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said"
1 Samuel 21:1: "David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting"
1 Samuel 21:2: "And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, hath commanded me a business, and hath said"
1 Samuel 21:8: "And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there here under thine hand"
1 Samuel 22:9: "coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub."
1 Samuel 22:11: "sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all"
1 Samuel 22:14: " Then Ahimelech answered the king, And who is so faithful among all"
1 Samuel 22:16: "And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, and all thy father's"
1 Samuel 22:20: "And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son named Abiathar, escaped,"
1 Samuel 23:6: "And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech to David to Keilah,"
1 Samuel 26:6: "David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son"
1 Samuel 30:7: "to Abiathar Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod."
2 Samuel 8:17: "And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah"
1 Chronicles 24:3: "of of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices"
1 Chronicles 24:6: "and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers"
1 Chronicles 24:31: "of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites,"
Psalms 52:1: "is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man?"