Senses
1. Ahimelech (proper name) — A Hebrew proper name (אֲחִימֶלֶךְ, 'my brother is king') referring primarily to the priest at Nob who gave David the showbread and Goliath's sword (1 Sam 21-22), and also to a Hittite companion of David (1 Sam 26:6). All three sense clusters represent the same proper noun with purely syntactic variation — bare nominative, with prepositions (to/of Ahimelech), and with conjunction (and-Ahimelech). Multilingual renderings are consistent: spa 'Ajimelec', arb 'أَخِيمَالِك', hin 'अहीमेलेक/अचिमेलेख', kor '아히멜렉', swa 'Ahimeleki'. 17×
AR["أخيمالِكَ","أَخيمَلِكَ","أَخِيمَالِك","لِـ-أَخِيمَالِك","وَ-أَخِيمَالِكَ","وَ-أَخِيمَالِكُ","وَأَخيمالِكُ"]·ben["অহীমেলক","অহীমেলককে","অহীমেলকের","অহীমেলেকের","আর-অহীমেলেক","এবং-অহীমেলেক"]·DE["Achimelech","Ahimelech","[ואחימלך]","und-Ahimelech","von-Achimelech","zu-Achimelech"]·EN["Achimelech","Ahimelech","and-Achimelekh","and-Ahimelech","of-Achimelech","to-Achimelech"]·FR["Achimélec","Ahimelech","Ahimélec","[ואחימלך]","de-Achimélec","et-Ahimelech","à-Achimélec"]·heb["אחימלך","ו-אחימלך","ל-אחימלך"]·HI["अचिमेलेख","अचिमेलेख-क","अचिमेलेख-के","अचिमेलेख-को","अचिमेलेख-ने","अचिमेलेख-से","अचिमेलेच-क","अहीमेलेक","अहीमेलेक-का","अहीमेलेक-के","और-अहीमेलेक"]·ID["Ahimelekh","dan-Ahimelek","dan-Ahimelekh","kepada-Ahimelekh","milik-Ahimelekh"]·IT["Achimelech","Ahimelech","[אחימלך]","[ואחימלך]","a-Achimelech","di-Achimelech","e-Ahimelech"]·jav["Ahimelekh","Akhimèlèkh","dhateng-Ahimelekh","lan-Ahimèlèk"]·KO["그리고-아히멜렉","그리고-아히멜렉이","아히멜렉","아히멜렉-의","아히멜렉아","아히멜렉에게","아히멜렉을","아히멜렉의","아히멜렉이"]·PT["'Achimelekh","'Achimeleque","Aimeleque","a-'Achimelekh","de-'Achimelekh","e-'Achimeleq","e-Ahimeleq"]·RU["Ахимелех","Ахимелеха","Ахимелеху","и-Ахимелех","и-Ахимелехом"]·ES["Ajimelec","Ajimelej","Ajimélec","a-Ajimélec","de-Ajimélec","y-Ajimelec"]·SW["Ahimeleki","kwa-Ahimeleki","na-Ahimeleki","ya-Ahimeleki"]·TR["-Ahimelek'in","Ahimelek","Ahimelek'e","Ahimelek'i","Ahimelek'in","Ahimelek-e","ve-Ahimeleh","ve-Ahimeleh'in","ve-Ahimelek"]·urd["اخیملک","اخیملک-سے","اخیملک-نے","اخیملک-کا","اخیملک-کے","اور-اخی-ملک","اور-اخیملک"]
1 Sam 21:2, 1 Sam 21:2, 1 Sam 21:3, 1 Sam 21:9, 1 Sam 22:9, 1 Sam 22:11, 1 Sam 22:14, 1 Sam 22:16, 1 Sam 22:20, 1 Sam 23:6, 1 Sam 26:6, 1 Sam 30:7 (+5 more)
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אֲחִימֶ֫לֶךְ n.pr.m. (brother of Melek, Ph. חמלך, חמלכת; v. also אחיהו supr.) 1. priest in Saul’s (Dvd’s) time 1 S 21:2(×2), 3, 9; 22:14, 16 (אֲחִימֶ֑לֶךְ) 1 Ch 24:31 ψ 52:2 (title); son of Ahitub 1 S 22:9, 11, (cf. 12), 20; father of Abiathar 1 S 23:6; 30:7; so also 2 S 8:17 𝔖 Ew We Th Dr; where MT אחימ׳ בן־אביתר; whence id. wrongly 1 Ch 24:6, cf. v 4 (אֲח׳ מִבְּנֵי אִיתָמָר) & 18:16 (where read אֲח׳ for אֲב׳). 2. a Hittite 1 S 26:6.