noun · masculine
moloch
Strong’sG3434
Moloch
stem moloch-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Μολόχ, ὁ, indecl. (Heb. מֹלֶךְ, prop. מֶלֶךְ, King, but vocalized to read בֺּשֶׁת, shame, of. Βάαλ, and v. DB, iii, 415 f.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3434 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmol-okh'
Moloch (i.e. Molek), an idol
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesMoloch.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Moloch, the god of the Ammonites :
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | moloch | moloch |
| object accusative | moloch | moloch |
| direct address vocative | moloch | moloch |
| of, belonging to genitive | moloch1×Μολὸχ | moloch |
| to, for dative | moloch | moloch |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
moloch“Moloch”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 7:43“Moloch”kai analabava tan skēnan tou Moloch kai tem astrem tou theou Raifan, …… taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you …