The corpus record — Hebrew

לַמֹּ֑לֶךְ

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Molech

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 9 · 0.29/10k

Senses

1. מֹ֫לֶךְ

Molech

2. מֹלֶךְ

Molek (i.e. king), the chief deity of the Ammonites

Attestations

לַ/מֹּ֑לֶךְ Leviticus 18:21 (BHS)
לַ/מֹּ֖לֶךְ Leviticus 20:2 (BHS)
לַ/מֹּ֔לֶךְ Leviticus 20:3 (BHS)
לַ/מֹּ֑לֶךְ Leviticus 20:4 (BHS)
הַ/מֹּ֖לֶךְ Leviticus 20:5 (BHS)
וּ/לְ/מֹ֕לֶךְ 1 Kings 11:7 (BHS)

6 of 9 attestations shown.

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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.