עֶבֶד מֶלֶךְʻEbed Melek
proper name, masculine: Ethiopian official of Zedekiah (Jeremiah 38:7; Jeremiah 38:8; Jeremiah 38:10; Jeremiah 38:11; Jeremiah 38:12)
Pronunciation: eh'-bed meh'-lek · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5663
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 12 times in the Bible.
- Jeremiah 38:7 But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an important court official, heard that Jeremiah was in the cistern. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate,
- Jeremiah 38:8 so Ebed-melech rushed from the palace to speak with him.
- Jeremiah 38:10 So the king told Ebed-melech, “Take thirty of my men with you, and pull Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies.”
- Jeremiah 38:11 So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to a room in the palace beneath the treasury, where he found some old rags and discarded clothing. He carried these to the cistern and lowered them to Jeremiah on a rope.
- Jeremiah 38:12 Ebed-melech called down to Jeremiah, “Put these rags under your armpits to protect you from the ropes.” Then when Jeremiah was ready,
- Jeremiah 39:16 “Say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will do to this city everything I have threatened. I will send disaster, not prosperity. You will see its destruction,
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).