Hammelech

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jeremiah 36:26

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 38:6. Jehoiakim at this time (the fifth year of his reign) had no grown up son. Jeconiah his successor was then but eleven (2 Kings 23:36; compare 2 Kings 24:8). We must not then, with Smith's Bible Dictionary, translated "the king," but as a proper name, Hammelech, father of Jerahmeel and Malchiah.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Jeremiah 36:26Jeremiah 38:6

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

HAMMELECH occurs as a proper name in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] of Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 38:6 , but there is little doubt that the rendering ought to be ‘the king,’ as in RV [Note: Revised Version.] and AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] .

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Father of Jerahmeel and Malchiah, as in the A.V. The word is considered by some not to be a proper name, but to signify 'the king,' reading 'Jerahmeel, the king's son,' and 'Malchiah, the king's son,' Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 38:6; as in the margin and the R.V.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ham'melech. Literally, "the king". Unnecessarily rendered, in the Authorized Version, as a proper name. Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 38:6.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ham´ē̇ -lek ( המּלך , ha - melekh , "the king"): Wrongly translated as a proper name in the King James Version. It should be rendered "the king," as in the American Standard Revised Version (Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 38:6 ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. ham-Me'lek, הִמֶּלֶךְ ', which is merely מֶלֶךְ', me'lek, king, with the article prefixed; Sept. translates ὁ βασιλεύς , Vulg. Amelech), the father of Jerahmeel, which latter was one of those commanded by Jehoiakim to arrest Jeremiah and Baruch (Jeremiah 36:26). B.C. ante 605. It is doubtful whether this was the same with the Hammelech, father of Malchiah, into whose dungeon Jeremiah was afterwards cast (Jeremiah 38:6). B.C. ante 589.'Others, however, regard the word in both cases as an appellative, referring in the first passage to Jehoiakim, and in the latter to Zedekiah. (See Hammoleketh).