Word

אֲחִימֶלֶךְ

ʼĂchîymelek · H288 · Hebrew · proper noun · 17 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 people

Meanings

Ahimelech

A man who was a son of Ahitub and father of Abiathar, a priest in the time of King David

Examples
1 Samuel 21:1 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came trembling to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”
1 Samuel 21:2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commissioned me with a matter and has said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the matter on which I am sending you and with which I have commissioned you; and I have directed the young men to a certain place.’
1 Samuel 21:8 David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there no spear or sword on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s matter was urgent.”
Ahimelech

A Hittite man who was a warrior in the time of King David

Examples
1 Samuel 26:6 Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
Ahimelech

A man who was a son of Abiathar, a priest in the time of King David

Examples
2 Samuel 8:17 Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was scribe.
1 Chronicles 24:3 David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their offices for their ministry.
1 Chronicles 24:6 Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel the scribe, from the Levites, recorded them in the presence of the king, the leaders, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and the Levites; one father’s household taken for Eleazar and one taken for Ithamar.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

8 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 5
כֹּהֵןpriest 3
חִתִּיHittite 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

חָלַקto divide, to distribute 1
חָרַדto tremble, to make afraid 1
עָנָהto answer 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כֹּהֵןpriest 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 5
לto/for 5

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 2
פָּנִיםface, presence, before 2
בַּיִתhouse, household 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: אֲחִימֶלֶךְ is the personal name of the priest at Nob who gave David bread and the sword of Goliath.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H288. Achimelek אֲחִימֶ֫לֶךְ proper name, masculine (brother of Melek, Phoenician חמלכת…

H288. Achimelek
אֲחִימֶ֫לֶךְ proper name, masculine (brother of Melek, Phoenician חמלכת חמלך,; see also אחיהו above)
1 priest in Saul's (David's) time 1Sa 21:2 (twice in verse); 1Sa 21:3; 1Sa 21:9; 1Sa 22:14, 1Sa 22:16 (אֲחִימֶ֑לֶךְ 1Ch 24:31; Psa 52:2 = (title); son of Ahitub 1Sa 22:9, 1Sa 22:11 (compare12); 1Sa 22:20; father of Abiathar 1Sa 23:6; 1Sa 30:7; so also 2Sa 8:17 ᵑ6 Ew We Th Dr; where אחימ ׳בןאֿביתר ᵑ0; whence id. wrongly 1Ch 24:6, compare 1Ch 24:4 (׳אֲח אִיתָמָר מִבְּנֵי) & 1Ch 18:16 (where read ׳אֲח for ׳אֲב).
2 a Hittite 1Sa 26:6.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People17 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0