H4428

• {"n":"melek","s":"King. The ordinary word, and the one behind Moloch and Melchizedek.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=melek","r":"1 Samuel 8:5","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads king."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Kingdom, kingly, kingship.** English builds a family from one root too, and you read the family without thinking."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Melek is a king. Malkut is kingship. The root appears in Melchizedek, king of righteousness, in Malchus, and in Molech, whose name is the consonants of melek with the vowels of bosheth, shame, a deliberate scribal insult."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English king is a fine equivalent; what is lost is the visibility of the root inside proper names."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Proper names in Hebrew are usually built from ordinary words. Learning twenty common nouns makes hundreds of names readable."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"King is universal."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05de\u05b6\u05dc\u05b6\u05da\u05b0 melek \u00b7 H4428"}],"src":["Melchizedek at Genesis 14:18","Molech at Leviticus 18:21","malkut, kingship: Psalm 145:13"]}