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# מִלכֹּם

Biblical Hebrew

**Milcom** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Milcom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5dc_5db_5b9_5bc_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִלְכֹּם: n.pr.div. Milcom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5dc_5db_5b9_5bc_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.div. Milcom, god of Ammonites (cf. RSSem i. 67)—מ׳ שִׁקֻּץ עַמֹּנִים 1 K 11:5 (‖ עַשְׁתֹּרֶת); cf. מ׳ אֱלֹהֵי בְנֵי עַמּוֹן v 33 (‖ ע׳ + כְּמוֹשׁ), so read also (for MT מֹלָךְ v 7 (‖ כְּמוֹשׁ); מ׳ תּוֹעֲבַת בְּנֵי־עַמּוֹן 2 K 23:13 (‖ as 1 K 11:33); id. מִלְכֹּם also for מַלְכָּם Je 49:1, 3 (𝔊 Μελχολ, Μελχομ), cf. Gie, and Zp 1:5 (𝔖 𝔙, cf. Now), prob. 2 S 12:30 = 1 Ch 20:2 (v. מֶלֶךְ 5 d), and perhaps Am 1:15 (whence Je 49:3; cf. Dr Now;—not We GASm).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Milcom (3); king (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 11:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.5/#tree)

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה אַחֲרֵ֣י עַשְׁתֹּ֔רֶת אֱלֹהֵ֖י צִדֹנִ֑ים וְאַחֲרֵ֣י מִלְכֹּ֔ם שִׁקֻּ֖ץ עַמֹּנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.walked Solomon after Astarte the.god of.\[the\].Sidonians and after Milcom the.detestable.thing of.\[the\].Ammonites

*JPS 1917:* For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the detestation of the Ammonites.

[Zephaniah 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.1.5/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַמִּשְׁתַּחֲוִ֥ים עַל־הַגַּגּ֖וֹת לִצְבָ֣א הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וְאֶת־הַמִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוִים֙ הַנִּשְׁבָּעִ֣ים לַֽיהוָ֔ה וְהַנִּשְׁבָּעִ֖ים בְּמַלְכָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) \[those who\].bow.down on the roofs to the.host of the.heavens and (et) \[those who\].bow.down \[those who\].swear.an.oath to Yahweh and \[those who\].swear.an.oath by king their

*JPS 1917:* And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship, that swear to the LORD and swear by Malcam;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5dc_5db_5b9_5bc_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5dc_5db_5b9_5bc_5dd/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).