Moloch
pronunciation
How to pronounce Moloch in British English:
UK [ˈməulɔk]
How to pronounce Moloch in American English:
US [ˈmoˌlɑk, ˈmɑlək]
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- Noun:
- any lizard of the genus Moloch
Word Origin
- Moloch
- Canaanite god said to have been propitiated by sacrificing children (Lev. xviii:21), from Latin Moloch, from Greek Molokh, from Hebrew molekh, from melekh "king," altered by the Jews with the vowel points from basheth "shame" to express their horror of the worship.
Example
- 1. Also known as edgar william vaughn.also known as moloch .
- 2. Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog !
- 3. Karl marx used an even better metaphor to characterize parasitic finance capital , " the complete objectification , inversion and derangement of capital as interest-bearing capital ...... it appears as a moloch demanding the whole world as a sacrifice belonging to it of right . "
- 4. I 'm not moloch anymore .
- 5. I will set my face against that man , and his kindred , and will cut off both him and all that consented with him , to commit fornication with moloch , out of the midst of their people .