Lexicon Molek: a heathen god to whom Isr. sacrificed children Original Word: מֹ֫לֶךPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Molek Phonetic Spelling: (mo'-lek) Short Definition: Molech NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as melekDefinitiona heathen god to whom Isr. sacrificed children NASB TranslationMolech (8).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מֹ֫לֶךְ proper name, of a divinity Molech ( ᵐ5 Μολοχ, ᵑ9 Moloch) (= מֶלֶךְ i.e. ( divine) King, with vowels of בּשֶׁת to denote abhorrence, Hoffm ZAW iii. 1883, 124 RS Semitic i. 353; 2nd ed. 372; compare Hoffm GG Abh. xxxvi. 1890 a (May, 1889), 25; Phoenician proper name, of divinity מלך Milk, in proper names compare Bloch, Dr Dt.222 f.); — with article ׳הַמּ: — the god to whom Israel sacrificed children with fire (in valley of Hinnom); ׳העביר בָּנֵשׁ לַ מּ 2 Kings 23:10; ׳העביר לַמּ Jeremiah 32:35 ("" הַבַּעַל), Leviticus 18:21 (H); ׳נתן לַמּ Leviticus 20:2,3,4 (H); more Generally ׳לִזְנוֺת אַחֲרֵי הַמּ Leviticus 20:5 (H). In 1 Kings 11:7 read probably מִלְכֹּם, q. v. Strong's Molech From malak; Molek (i.e. King), the chief deity of the Ammonites -- Molech. Compare Malkam. see HEBREW malak see HEBREW Malkam |
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