Strong's #4428: melek (pronounced meh'-lek)
from 4427; a king:--king, royal.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
melek
1) king
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H4427
Usage:
This word is used 2521 times:
Nehemiah 9:24: "the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would."
Nehemiah 9:32: "before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers,"
Nehemiah 9:32: "and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this"
Nehemiah 9:34: " Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor"
Nehemiah 9:37: "And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion"
Nehemiah 11:23: "For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due"
Nehemiah 11:24: "of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters"
Nehemiah 13:6: "and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king,"
Nehemiah 13:6: "of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of"
Nehemiah 13:6: "certain days obtained I leave of the king:"
Nehemiah 13:26: "Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many"
Nehemiah 13:26: "nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God,"
Nehemiah 13:26: "of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless"
Esther 1:2: "That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom,"
Esther 1:5: "And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people"
Esther 1:5: "seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;"
Esther 1:7: "and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king."
Esther 1:8: "did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers"
Esther 1:9: "in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus."
Esther 1:10: "On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman,"
Esther 1:10: "in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,"
Esther 1:11: "Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the people"
Esther 1:12: "Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains:"
Esther 1:12: "commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger"
Esther 1:13: " Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's"
Esther 1:13: "the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew"
Esther 1:14: "of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)"
Esther 1:15: "she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?"
Esther 1:16: "And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not"
Esther 1:16: "hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all"
Esther 1:16: "that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus."
Esther 1:17: "their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti"
Esther 1:18: "this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of"
Esther 1:19: "If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from"
Esther 1:19: "That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king"
Esther 1:19: "come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate"
Esther 1:20: " And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for"
Esther 1:21: "And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word"
Esther 1:21: "pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:"
Esther 1:22: "letters into all the king's provinces, into every province"
Esther 2:1: "these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered"
Esther 2:2: "Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins"
Esther 2:2: "unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:"
Esther 2:3: " And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together"
Esther 2:3: "of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women;"
Esther 2:4: "And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti."
Esther 2:4: "instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so."
Esther 2:6: "which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar"
Esther 2:6: "king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away."
Esther 2:8: "So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together"
