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Strong's #4445 - מַלְכָּם
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- Milcom = "great king"
- the god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom some Israelites sacrificed their infants in the valley of Hinnom
- also ´Molech´
- a Benjamite, son of Shaharaim by his wife Hodesh
- the god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom some Israelites sacrificed their infants in the valley of Hinnom
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מִלְכֹּם proper name, of a divinity Milcom, god of Ammonites (compare RS Semitic i. 67) — שִׁקֻּץ עַמֹּנִים׳מ 1 Kings 11:5 ("" עַשְׁתֹּרֶת); compare אֱלֹהֵי בְנֵי עַמּוֺן׳מ 1 Kings 11:33 ("" ׳ע + כְּמוֺשׁ), so read also (for ᵑ0מֹלֶךְ) 1 Kings 11:7 ("" כְּמוֺשׁ); תּוֺעֲבַת׳מ בְּנֵיעַֿמּוֺן 2 Kings 23:13 ("" as 1 Kings 11:33); read מִלְכֹּם also for מַלְכָּם Jeremiah 49:1,3(ᵐ5 Μελχολ, Μελχομ), compare Gie, and Zephaniah 1:5 (ᵑ6ᵑ9, compare Now), probably 2 Samuel 12:30 = 1 Chronicles 20:2 (see מֶלֶךְ 5d), and perhaps Amos 1:15 (whence Jeremiah 49:3; compare Dr Now; — not We GASm).
מַלְכָּם [Malcham], pr.n.
(1) of an idol of the Moabites and Ammonites, i.q. מִלְכֹּם and מֹלֶךְ Jerem. 49:1, 1 Chronicles 9:3 (but Zephaniah 1:5; Amos 1:15 מַלְכָּם is an appellative [with suff.]).
(2) m. 1 Chronicles 8:9.
