my king; my counsel
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
MELCHI.1. 2. Two ancestors of Jesus (Luk_3:24; Luk_3:28).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1. Luk_3:24.
2. Luk_3:28.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Mel'chi. (my king, my counsel). The son of Janna, and ancestor of Joseph, in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Luk_3:24.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mel?kı̄ (Tischendorf, Tregelles, Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek, Μελχεί, Melcheı́; Textus Receptus of the New Testament, Μελχί, Melchı́): The name of two ancestors of Jesus according to Luke's genealogy, one being in the 4th generation before Joseph, the husband of Mary, the other being in the 3rd generation before Zerubbabel (Luk_3:24, Luk_3:28).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Melchi
(Μελχί, for Hebrews מִלְכַּי, my king), the name of two of Christ's maternal ancestors. SEE GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST.
1. The son of Addi and father (maternal grandfather) of Neri or Neriah (Luk_3:28); probably identical with the MAASEIAH of 2Ch_34:8).
2. The son of Janna and father of Levi, fourth in ascent from the Virgin Mary (Luk_3:24). BC. much ante 22.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.