1) Australian lizard 2) Biblical god of fire 3) Canaanite deity in II Kings 4) Fearsome Semitic deity 5) Force 6) Greyhawk deity 7) Horned deity 8) Malevolent fire god 9) Power 10) Sleepy Hollow antagonist 11) West Semitic god
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1) Demon 2) Molech
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Moloch, also known as Molech, Molekh, Molok, Molek, Molock, Moloc, Melech, Milcom, or Molcom (representing Semitic מלך m-l-k, a Semitic root meaning `king`) is the name of an ancient Ammonite god. Moloch worship was practiced by the Canaanites, Phoenicians, and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant. As a god worshipped by the Phoeni.....
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[Kuprin] Moloch (Молох) is a short novel by Alexander Kuprin, first published in December 1896 Russkoye Bogatstvo issue. A sharp critique of the rapidly growing Russian capitalism and a reflection of the growing industrial unrest in the country, it is considered Kuprin`s first major work. ==Synopsis== Engineer Andrey Bobrov works for a...
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• (n.) The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively. • (n.) A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.
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a deity to whom child sacrifices were made throughout the ancient Middle East. The name derives from combining the consonants of the Hebrew melech ...
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small (20-centimetre- [8-inch-] long), squat, orange and brown Australian lizard of the Old World family Agamidae. Moloch is entirely covered with ...
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In the Old Testament, a Phoenician deity worshipped in Jerusalem in the 7th century BC, to whom live children were sacrificed by fire. ...
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Mo'loch noun [ Hebrew
molek king.]
1. (Script.) The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.
2. (Zoology) A spiny Australian lizard (
Moloch horridus ). The horns on the head and numerous sp...
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Moloch, also known as Molech, was the Ammonite god to whom human sacrifices were made. He was the chief god of the Phoenicians and his whose worship consisted chiefly of human sacrifices, ordeals by fire, mutilation, etc.
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n] - a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice 2. [n] - god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children 3. [n] - any lizard of the genus Moloch
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noun god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
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noun any lizard of the genus Moloch
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In the Old Testament, a Phoenician deity worshipped in Jerusalem in the 7th century BC, to whom live children were sacrificed by fire
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a deity whose worship was marked by the propitiatory sacrifice of children by their own parents. II Kings 23:10; Jer. 32:35. · anything conceived of as requiring appalling sacrifice: the Moloch of war. · (l.c.) a spiny agamid lizard, Moloch horridus, of Australian deserts, that resembles the horned lizard.
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