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1 Kings 10:13
“And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4428 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a king
- Derivation
- from H4427 (מָלַךְ);
- KJV renderings
- king, royal.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הַ — particle (definite article)
- מֶּ֨לֶךְ — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 2,526 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 14:1Genesis 14:1Genesis 14:1Genesis 14:1Genesis 14:2
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מֶלֶךְ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.