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Strong's #4445: Malkam (pronounced mal-kawm')

or Milkowm {mil-kome'}; from 4428 for 4432; Malcam or Milcom, the national idol of the Ammonites:--Malcham, Milcom.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ

malkâm / milkôm

Milcom = "great king"

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

1a) also ' Molech'

2) a Benjamite, son of Shaharaim by his wife Hodesh

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H4428 for H4432



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

1 Kings 11:5: "the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites."
1 Kings 11:33: "Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not"
2 Kings 23:13: "the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children"
1 Chronicles 8:9: "Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,"
Zephaniah 1:5: "and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;"









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