מֶלֶךְ

מֶ֫לֶךְ₁₇₈ noun masculine king (general Semitic; see Biblical Hebrew); — ׳מ absolute Dan 2,10 + 2 t.; construct Dan 4,34 + 6 t.; usually emphatic מַלְכָּא Ezr 4,8 + 154 t., ָ  ה Dan 2,11 plural מַלְכִין Ezr 4,15 + 9 t., ִ  ים Ezr 4,13 (Hebraism, BeRy M⁴¹*); emphatic מַלְכַיָּא Dan 2,44 + 2 t.; — king Dan 2,4; Dan 2,5 + 132 t. Daniel; Ezr 4,8; Ezr 4,11 + 42 t. Ezra (מֶלָךְ מַלְכַיָּא of Nebuchadnezzar Dan 2,37, of Artaxerxes Ezr 7,12 [compare Cooke^{71.3, of Xerxes}]; מַלְכִין Dan 7,17 = kingdoms, compare מַלְכוּ vDan 7,23).