malkam · Milcom

What it means

malkam (מַלְכָּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Milcom”.

The name of the main god of the sons of Ammon. The name is like the word "king"; in some passages it is not certain whether to read "Milcom" or "their king."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; he is also called Malcam, "their king".
2. A man of the tribe of Benjamin, a son of Shaharaim and Hodesh.
3. "Their king": perhaps the Ammonite god, by whom some swore.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Milcom ×3
• Malcam ×1
• king ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Zephaniah×1

• 1 Kings 11:5

  And Solomon went after Astarte, the god of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the detestable thing of the Ammonites.

• 1 Kings 11:33

  because they have abandoned me and bowed down to Astarte, the god of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the sons of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my eyes, and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.

• 2 Kings 23:13

  The high places that were facing Jerusalem, which were to the right of the Mount of Destruction, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Astarte, the detestable thing of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king made unclean.

• 1 Chronicles 8:9

  And he fathered by Hodesh his wife Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,

• Zephaniah 1:5

  and those who bow down on the roofs to the army of the heavens, and those who bow down, who swear to YHWH and swear by their king;