noun · masculine
moloch
GreekΜολόχ (moloch)
Strong’sG3434
Moloch
stem moloch-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
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.
Every form
| 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
moloch“Moloch”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 7:43“Moloch”kai analambava tan skēnan tou Moloch kai tem astrem tou theou Raifan, toin tupoin hoin poiava proskunarō autoi. kai metoikizami vin epekeina Babulōnau.You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’