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Strong's #4432: Molek (pronounced mo'-lek)

from 4427; Molek (i.e. king), the chief deity of the Ammonites:--Molech. Compare 4445.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

môlek

Molech = "king"

1) the god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom some Israelites sacrificed their infants in the valley of Hinnom

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H4427



Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

Leviticus 18:21: "let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane"
Leviticus 20:2: "that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death:"
Leviticus 20:3: "from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to"
Leviticus 20:4: "their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech,"
Leviticus 20:5: "that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people."
1 Kings 11:7: "that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon."
2 Kings 23:10: "or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech."
Jeremiah 32:35: "their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither"
Amos 5:26: "But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god,"









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