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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #0288 - אֲחִימֶלֶךְ

Transliteration

'ăchı̂ymelek

Phonetics

akh-ee-meh'-lek

Origin

from (0251) and (04428)

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Masculine

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Ahimelech = “my brother is king” or “brother of Melek”

1) a priest murdered by Doeg at Saul’s command, for supposedly assisting David

2) a Hittite warrior under David

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

KJV (17)

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Chronicles

Psalms

NAS (16)

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Chronicles

HCS (16)

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Chronicles

BSB (17)

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Chronicles

Psalms

ESV (17)

Joshua

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Chronicles

WEB (16)

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Chronicles

Verse Results

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

אֲחִימֶלֶךְ (“brother of the king”), [Ahimelech], pr.n.

(1) a priest living ar Nob, the father of Abiathar, the intimate friend of David (1 Samuel 21:2, 20:9 Psalms 52:2), and therefore slain by Saul. Different from this apparently may be

(2) Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, one of the two high priests in the time of David, 2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 24:3, 1 Chronicles 24:6, 31 1 Chronicles 24:31. Korb, however (Winer Theol. Journal IV. p. 295), supposes, with a great deal of probability, that in 2 Samuel 8:17, for “Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar,” we should read, “Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech;” from this erroneous reading he supposes that a mistake was introduced into the Chronicles.

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List of Word Forms

אֲחִימֶ֑לֶךְ אֲחִימֶ֔לֶךְ אֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְ אֲחִימֶ֛לֶךְ אֲחִימֶ֜לֶךְ אֲחִימֶ֣לֶךְ אֲחִימֶ֨לֶךְ אֲחִימֶֽלֶךְ׃ אחימלך אחימלך׃ וַאֲחִימֶ֔לֶךְ וַאֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְ וַאֲחִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙ וַאֲחִימֶ֥לֶךְ ואחימלך לַאֲחִימֶ֔לֶךְ לַאֲחִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙ לַאֲחִימֶ֣לֶךְ לאחימלך ’ă·ḥî·me·leḵ ’ăḥîmeleḵ achiMelech la’ăḥîmeleḵ la·’ă·ḥî·me·leḵ laachiMelech vaachiMelech wa’ăḥîmeleḵ wa·’ă·ḥî·me·leḵ

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