II. מֶ֫לֶךְ proper name, masculine son of Micah, a Benjamite (on ׳מ as individual name see Gray^{Prop. N. 116, 122 n. 4}; compare Phoenician proper name מלך (see Bloch); Sabean proper name מלכם CIS^{iv. 1}; Palmyrene proper name מלכו Vog^{Palm. 92} and others Nabataean id., Eut^{Nab 21, 4} and others Vog^{Nab 1, 2} ); — 1 Chronicles 8:35 (ᵐ5 Μελχηλ), 1 Chronicles 9:41 (ᵐ5 Μαλαχ; ᵐ5^L Μελχιηλ in both).

מֶ֫לֶךְ₁₇₈ noun masculine king (general Semitic; see Biblical Hebrew); — ׳מ absolute Daniel 2:10 2t.; construct Daniel 4:34 6t.; usually emphatic מַלְכָּא Ezra 4:8 154t., ָ  ה Daniel 2:11; plural מַלְכִין Ezra 4:15 9t., ִ  ים Ezra 4:13 (Hebraism, BeRy M⁴¹*); emphatic מַלְכַיָּא Daniel 2:44 2t.; — king Daniel 2:4,5 132t. Daniel; Ezra 4:8,11 42t. Ezra (מֶלָךְ מַלְכַיָּא of Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 2:37, of Artaxerxes Ezra 7:12 [compare Cooke^{71.3, of Xerxes}]; מַלְכִין Daniel 7:17 #NAME?מַלְכוּ Daniel 7:23).