מֶלֶךְ
melek · meh'-lek
a king
Lexicon
Derivation: (Aramaic) corresponding to H4428 (מֶלֶךְ);
a king
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: king, royal.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › authority, the one who leads › the open hand that covers
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of authority, the one who leads of the open hand that covers.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מֶלֶךְ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
180 occurrences · 180 OT · 0 NT · 45 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the king64 · 38%
- o king19 · 11%
- the king's11 · 7%
- king11 · 7%
- unto the king9 · 5%
- kings9 · 5%
- to the king7 · 4%
- and the king7 · 4%
- of the king6 · 4%
- of kings3 · 2%
- which the king3 · 2%
- whom the king3 · 2%
- of the kings2 · 1%
- that the king2 · 1%
- unto kings1 · 1%
- of king1 · 1%
- the same king1 · 1%
- made in the king's1 · 1%
- and let the king1 · 1%
- that of the king's1 · 1%
- let the king1 · 1%
- unto us the king's1 · 1%
- art a king1 · 1%
- unto thee, o king1 · 1%
- and the king's1 · 1%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.