STRONGS NUMBER H4429

H4429. Melek

II. מֶ֫לֶךְ‎ proper name, masculine son of Micah, a Benjamite (on ׳מ‎ as individual name see Gray^{Prop. N. 116, 122 n. 4}; compare Phoenician proper name מלך‎ (see Bloch); Sabean proper name מלכם‎ CIS^{iv. 1}; Palmyrene proper name מלכו‎ Vog^{Palm. 92} and others Nabataean id., Eut^{Nab 21, 4} and others Vog^{Nab 1, 2} ); — 1 Chronicles 8:35 (ᵐ5‎ Μελχηλ), 9:41 (ᵐ5‎ Μαλαχ; ᵐ5‎^L Μελχιηλ in both).

מֶ֫לֶךְ‎₁₇₈ noun masculine king (general Semitic; see Biblical Hebrew); — ׳מ‎ absolute Daniel 2:10 2t.; construct 4:34 6t.; usually emphatic מַלְכָּא‎ Ezra 4:8 154t., ָ ה‎ Daniel 2:11; plural מַלְכִין‎ Ezra 4:15 9t., ִ ים‎ 4:13 (Hebraism, BeRy M⁴¹*); emphatic מַלְכַיָּא‎ Daniel 2:44 2t.; — king 2:4-5, 132t. Daniel; Ezra 4:8, 11 42t. Ezra (מַלְכַיָּא מֶלָךְ‎ of Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 2:37, of Artaxerxes Ezra 7:12 [compare Cooke^{71.3, of Xerxes}]; מַלְכִין‎ Daniel 7:17 +?מַלְכוּ‎ 7:23).