מֶלֶךְ
Used: 180 times · Key: lemma:מֶלֶךְ · BDB: מֶ֫לֶךְ
Glosses
the (117); O (23); of (18)
Meaning (OSHB)
king tree →
Meaning (BDB 1906)
n.m. king tree →
The whole BDB entry
n.m. king (general Sem.; v. BH);—מ׳ abs. Dn 2:10 + 2 times; cstr. 4:34 + 6 times; usually emph. מַלְכָּא Ezr 4:8 + 154 times, ה—ָ Dn 2:11; pl. מַלְכִין Ezr 4:15 + 9 times, ים—ִ 4:13 (Hebraism, Be-Ry M41 *); emph. מַלְכַיָּא Dn 2:44 + 2 times;—king Dn 2:4, 5 + 132 times Dn, Ezr 4:8, 11 + 42 times Ezr (מֶלֶךְ מַלְכַיָּא of Neb. Dn 2:37, of Artax. Ezr 7:12 [cf. Cooke71, 3, of Xerxes]; מַלְכִין Dn 7:17 = kingdoms, cf. מַלְכוּ v 23).
Jastrow 1903
מֶלֶךְ: leader in council, chief, king Princess certain disorder of the eye tree →
The whole Jastrow entry
preced.) leader in council, chief, king. Ber. 3ᵇ אדוננו המ׳ our lord the king! Tosef. Snh. VIII, 5, a. fr. מ׳ מלכי המלכים the Most Supreme King (the Lord). Ib. IX, 8 אפי׳ מ׳ של מלכים even a king of kings (great sovereign). Snh. 38ᵃ, a. fr. מ׳ בו"ד (v. בָּשָׂר) a human chief. Ab. Zar. 10ᵃ אין מושיבין מ׳ בן מ׳ they (the Romans) do not allow the son of a king to succeed his father. Kerith. 5ᵇ מ׳ ראשון a first king, starter of a dynasty. Shebu. 6ᵇ מַלְכֹּו של זה this hyparch’s chief. Num. R. s. 18 משה מ׳ וכ׳ Moses has made himself the chief, and Aaron is high priest &c.; a. v. fr.—Pl. מְלָכִים. Hor. 12ᵃ כיצד מושחין את המ׳ וכ׳ how are kings anointed? By drawing with the oil the outlines of a crown; Ker. 5ᵇ. Ib. מַלְכֵי בית דוד the kings of the house of David (southern kingdom); מ׳ ישראל the kings of the northern kingdom; a. v. fr.—בַּת מְ׳ Princess, name of a demon afflicting the eye, also a certain disorder of the eye, v. בַּת I. Sabb. 109ᵃ (Var. בת חורין, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).—Pl. בנות מֶלֶךְ. Tosef. B. Kam. IX, 27 יצאו בנות מ׳ the ‘princesses’ (humors of the eye) escaped (in consequence of a blow).
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (11 candidates)
Trees and pragmatics
Every English meaning of «מֶלֶךְ» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.
In the verses
כֹּ֣לָּא מְּטָ֔א עַל־נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּֽא׃פ
Word for word: (the) everything it.came on Nebuchadnezzar the king
JPS 1917: All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
דְּנָ֣ה חֶלְמָ֔א וּפִשְׁרֵ֖הּ נֵאמַ֥ר קֳדָם־מַלְכָּֽא׃
Word for word: this [was].the dream and interpretation its we.will.tell before the king
JPS 1917: This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
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