Original Language Studio
Judges 9:45
“And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H40 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites
- Derivation
- from H1 (אָב) and H4428 (מֶלֶךְ); father of (the) king;
- KJV renderings
- Abimelech.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- אֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 67 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 20:2Genesis 20:3Genesis 20:4Genesis 20:8Genesis 20:9
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 אֲבִימֶלֶךְ 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.