What does מֶלֶךְ · כֹּל · אֶרֶץ mean in the Bible?
מֶלֶךְ · כֹּל · אֶרֶץ is a Hebrew phrase meaning "king of all the earth".
Hebrew · H4428, H3605, H776
מֶלֶךְ כָּל־הָאָרֶץ
A king · properly, the whole ; hence, all , any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense) · the earth (at large, or partitively a land )
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מֶלֶךְ H4428 a king
Pronunciation melek
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כֹּל H3605 properly, the whole ; hence, all , any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
Pronunciation kōl
Encompasses totality from singular form—"the whole" as foundational sense enabling distributive "every" and collective "all" meanings.
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אֶרֶץ H776 the earth (at large, or partitively a land )
Pronunciation erets
Physical ground and soil extend metaphorically to inhabited territory, nation, and cosmic order under divine rule.
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What does מֶלֶךְ כָּל־הָאָרֶץ (melek kol-ha'arets) mean in the Bible?
מֶלֶךְ · כֹּל · אֶרֶץ is a Hebrew phrase meaning "king of all the earth".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for H4428, H3605, H776?
H4428, H3605, H776 is connected to 10,448 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew phrase. king of all the earth
Strong's H4428, H3605, H776
Lexical occurrences 10,448 verses Source Gloss
king of all the earth
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
Word Origins
מֶלֶךְ כָּל־הָאָרֶץ is built from this root:
Cross-Language Connections
Greek words that correspond to or develop the meaning of this Hebrew word in the New Testament.
G3197 LXX equivalent Greek
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain