A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.14.3; son of: Ahitub (H0285); father of: Abiathar (H0054); also called Ahijah (KJV: Ahiah) at 1Sa.14.3,18; Also named: a.chiy.yah (אֲחִיָּ֫הוּ "Ahijah" H0281O) § Ahimelech = "my brother is king" or "brother of Melek" 1) a priest murdered by Doeg at Saul's command, for supposedly assisting David 2) a Hittite warrior under David
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H288 — אֲחִימֶ֫לֶךְ
a.chi.me.lekh · Ahimelech · Hebrew/Aramaic
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1 Samuel 21:1 · אֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְ · אֲחִימֶ֜לֶךְThen came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”1 Samuel 21:2 · לַאֲחִימֶ֣לֶךְDavid said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, ‘Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.’1 Samuel 21:8 · לַאֲחִימֶ֔לֶךְDavid said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your 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 · אֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְThen Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.1 Samuel 22:11 · אֲחִימֶ֨לֶךְThen the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.1 Samuel 22:14 · אֲחִימֶ֛לֶךְThen Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?1 Samuel 22:16 · אֲחִימֶ֑לֶךְThe king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.”1 Samuel 22:20 · לַאֲחִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.1 Samuel 23:6 · אֲחִימֶ֛לֶךְIt happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.1 Samuel 26:6 · אֲחִימֶ֣לֶךְThen answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”1 Samuel 30:7 · אֲחִימֶ֔לֶךְDavid said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring me here the ephod.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.2 Samuel 8:17 · וַאֲחִימֶ֥לֶךְand Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;1 Chronicles 24:3 · וַאֲחִימֶ֖לֶךְDavid with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.1 Chronicles 24:6 · וַאֲחִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.1 Chronicles 24:31 · וַאֲחִימֶ֔לֶךְThese likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother.