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אֱלִימֶלֶךְ

e.li.me.lekh

Elimelech

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Strong’s H458Proper name, a person6 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

elimelech5

was elimelech1

In the text

Ruth 1:2אֱלִימֶלֶךְ
The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אֱלִימֶ֫לֶךְ n.pr.m. (God is king) husband of Naomi

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.