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molech
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun molech has 1 sense
- molech(n = noun.person) moloch - god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children; Array is a kind of semitic deity
CIDE DICTIONARY
molech, prop. n. [Heb. molek king.].
The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch. Lev. xviii. 21. [1913 Webster]
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