הַמֶּלֶךְ הַטּוֹב
ORIGINALBH-051
Biblical Hebrew · Nouns, Describing Words, Number, and “X of Y”
Definite noun and adjective
BH-051Biblical HebrewMasoretic Hebrew of Tanakh
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הַמֶּלֶךְ הַטּוֹב
Transliterationha-melekh ha-tov
Plain meaningthe good king
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Definite noun and adjective
When an adjective directly describes a definite noun, Hebrew normally marks the adjective as definite too. That is why both הַמֶּלֶךְ and הַטּוֹב carry the article. Compare this with a sentence where “the king is good,” which does not use the same pattern.
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ha-melekh ha-tov
READINGApproved transliteration
the good king
MEANINGBiblical Hebrew
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