עֶבֶד מֶלֶךְ
ʻEbed Melek · H5663 · Hebrew · proper noun · 12 occurrences
Person
Meanings
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Ebed-Melek
A Cushite man and eunuch in the time of King Zedekiah, who saved Jeremiah from a cistern
ExamplesJeremiah 38:7 But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. Now the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin;
Jeremiah 38:8 and Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and spoke to the king, saying,
Jeremiah 38:10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take thirty men from here under your authority and bring Jeremiah the prophet up from the cistern before he dies.”
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of People003001007
- The proper name Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian eunuch in the royal court who rescued Jeremiah from the cistern and was promised his life would be spared in the fall of Jerusalem.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5663. Ebed Melek מֶ֫לֶךְ עֶ֫בֶד proper name, masculine (= servant of the king, or < of…
Melek מֶ֫לֶךְ עֶ֫בֶד proper name, masculine (= servant of the king, or < of (god) Melek, compare GrayProp. N. 117, 147 ff.); — Ethiopian official of Zedekiah Jer 38:7-8, Jer 38:10, Jer 38:11, Jer 38:12; Jer 39:16; ᵐ5 Αβδεμελεχ.
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
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