Bible Person
Meaning: a king; a counselor · Male · 2 cross references
Hammelech is a name attached to the family background of royal-connected officials in Jeremiah, likely meaning a specific person rather than simply 'the king'. He appears through children tied to the political and imprisonment scenes of Jerusalem's final crisis. First appears in Jer 36:26.1
AI summary: Hammelech matters because the cross references place his house in the orbit of Jeremiah's persecution and the fractured royal politics of Judah's last years. Through sons such as Jerahmeel and Malchiah, his line is linked to attempts to seize, confine, or suppress the prophet. Taken together, the material presents Hammelech as the background figure of a royal-connected household entwined with resistance to prophetic truth.1
Central Figure
Hammelech
Meaning: a king; a counselor
The king’s, the father of Jerahmeel, mentioned in Jer.
The king’s, the father of Jerahmeel, mentioned in Jer. 36:26. Some take this word as a common noun, “the king”, and understand that Jerahmeel was Jehoiakim’s son. Probably, however, it is to be taken as a proper name. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.