Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H4445
מַלְכָּם
Malkammal-kawm'
Malcam; Milcom
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Malkâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4445is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4445
Malcam or Milcom, the national idol of the Ammonites
The King James renders it: Malcham, Milcom.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Malkam is rendered "Malcam; Milcom". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "Malcam".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 11:5Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
1 Kings 11:5מִלְכֹּ֔ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: Malcam, and Milcom.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| MalcamStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where1 Kings 11:5Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the… |
| MilcomStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and to Milcom2
- Malkam1
- Milcom1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַלְכוּת | malkuth | royalty | Uses91 |
| מַלְכוּ | malku | kingdom | Uses57 |
| מַלְכָּה | malkah | Queen (of Sheba) | Uses35 |
| מַלְקוֹחַ | malqoach | prey | Uses8 |
| מַלְקוֹשׁ | malqosh | spring rain | Uses8 |
| מַלְבּוּשׁ | malbush | garment | Uses8 |
| מַלְבֵּן | malben | brick | Uses3 |
| מַלְאַךְ | malak | angel | Uses2 |
| מַלְכָּא | malka | queen | Uses2 |
| מַלְמָד | malmad | oxgoad | Uses1 |
| מַלְאֲכוּת | malakuth | message | Uses1 |
| מַלְכֹּדֶת | malkodeth | snare | Uses1 |
and 2 more on the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּלְמִלְכֹּ֖ם2
- מִלְכֹּ֔ם1
- מַלְכָּֽם׃1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2HC/R/Npt
- proper noun (a name)1HNpm
- proper noun (a name)1HNpt
1 Kings
two uses
Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- מִלְכֹּ֔םmilkomproper noun (a name)tagged: Milcom
For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
- וּלְמִלְכֹּ֖םulemilkomconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Milcom
2 Kings
one use
The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- וּלְמִלְכֹּ֖םulemilkomconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Milcom
1 Chronicles
one use
His sons by his wife Hodesh:
- מַלְכָּֽם׃malkamproper noun (a name)tagged: Malkam
The letters
Gematria 130· 690 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.