מְלַךְ
mᵉlak · H4431 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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advice, counsel
Causative action by which humans or deities offer guidance and recommendations to humans to help them take the right decisions
ExamplesDaniel 4:27 ‘Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you: wipe away your sin by doing righteousness, and your wrongdoings by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יmy 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁפַרbe acceptable 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- עֵצָה ʻêtsâh · H6098 · understanding, insight, sense
- Standard Hebrew term for counsel, advice, or plan; the most common Hebrew word for counsel and directly interchangeable in this semantic domain
In the other Testament 1 word
- συμβούλιον symboúlion · G4824 · to confer, to consult, to plot
- Greek term for counsel or consultation, used for deliberative advice-giving contexts
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Know002004002007
- מְלַךְ, occurring once in Daniel 4:27 (Aramaic), names counsel or advice offered to the king, information given to guide his decision.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4431. melek [מְלֵךְ] noun masculine counsel, advice; — suffix מִלְכִּי Dan 4:24 let my…
[מְלֵךְ] noun masculine counsel, advice; — suffix מִלְכִּי Dan 4:24 let my counsel be acceptable to thee.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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