ʼĂchîymelek — H288

Definition

masculine proper noun

Achimelek, the name of an Israelite and of a Hittite

1. Ahimelech = "my brother is king" or "brother of Melek"
2. a priest murdered by Doeg at Saul's command, for supposedly assisting David
3. a Hittite warrior under David

Usually translated as

Ahimelech

Origin

from H251 and H4428; brother of (the) king

• Derived from ʼâch (H251)
• Derived from Melek (H4428)

Occurrences

ʼĂchîymelek occurs 16 times in 15 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (11), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Chronicles (3)

• 1 Samuel 21:1 — Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech (אֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְ) the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
• 1 Samuel 21:1 — Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech (אֲחִימֶ֜לֶךְ) was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
• 1 Samuel 21:2 — And David said unto Ahimelech (לַאֲחִימֶ֣לֶךְ) the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
• 1 Samuel 21:8 — And David said unto Ahimelech (לַאֲחִימֶ֔לֶךְ), And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.
• 1 Samuel 22:9 — Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech (אֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְ) the son of Ahitub.
• 1 Samuel 22:11 — Then the king sent to call Ahimelech (אֲחִימֶ֨לֶךְ) the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
• 1 Samuel 22:14 — Then Ahimelech (אֲחִימֶ֛לֶךְ) answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
• 1 Samuel 22:16 — And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech (אֲחִימֶ֑לֶךְ), thou, and all thy father’s house.
• 1 Samuel 22:20 — And one of the sons of Ahimelech (לַאֲחִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙) the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
• 1 Samuel 23:6 — And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech (אֲחִימֶ֛לֶךְ) fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
• 1 Samuel 26:6 — Then answered David and said to Ahimelech (אֲחִימֶ֣לֶךְ) the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
• 1 Samuel 30:7 — And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s (אֲחִימֶ֔לֶךְ) son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
• 2 Samuel 8:17 — And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech (וַאֲחִימֶ֥לֶךְ) the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
• 1 Chronicles 24:3 — And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech (וַאֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְ) of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.
• 1 Chronicles 24:6 — And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech (וַאֲחִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙) the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
• 1 Chronicles 24:31 — These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech (וַאֲחִימֶ֔לֶךְ), and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.