ἈΒΙΜΕΛΕΧ, ἀβιμελεχ
ABIMELECH, abimelech
Sounds Like: ah-BEE-meh-lekh
Translations: Abimelech
From the root: ΑΒΙΜΕΛΕΧ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: Abimelech is a proper noun referring to several Philistine kings mentioned in the Old Testament. It is a compound word meaning 'my father is king' or 'father of a king'. The most notable figures bearing this name are the king of Gerar who interacted with Abraham and Isaac, and the son of Gideon who became a tyrannical ruler.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G0002 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Pseudo-Baruch
- The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 0:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 20:2, 20:3, 20:4, 20:8, 20:9, 20:10, 20:14, 20:15, 20:17, 20:18, 21:22, 21:25, 21:26, 21:27, 21:29, 21:32, 26:1, 26:8, 26:9, 26:10, 26:11, 26:16, 26:26
- 1 Samuel — 21:1
- Psalms — 51:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΒΙΜΕΛΕΧ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΒΙΜΕΛΕΧΟΝ — Abimelech
- ἈΒΙΜΕΛΕΧΩ — (to) Abimelech
- ΑΒΙΜΕΛΕΧ — Abimelech
- ΑΒΙΜΕΛΕΧʼ — Abimelech
This concordance database is in beta
That means it's an unfinished preview of what we're building and is still being refined and corrected. It was initially generated from Google Gemini 2.5. It will be edited and corrected over time, with additional information added as we go.
It is your responsibility to double-check anything important.
Please report any errors or important missing information.