moloch

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von moloch im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

dikenli kertenkele fenikelilerin çocuk kurban ettikleri tanrı

Fenikelilerin çocuk kurban ettikleri tanrı

dikenli kertenkele

Türkisch - Türkisch

Definition von moloch im Türkisch Türkisch wörterbuch

Avustralya'da yaşayan ve gövdesi tamamen dikenle kaplı çöl agaması

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von moloch im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Any of several Australian lizards of the genus Moloch

{i} Canaanite god mentioned in the Bible (whose ritual included human sacrifice)

a god in some ancient religions, mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible, for whom children were killed as a sacrifice. Ancient Middle Eastern deity to whom children were sacrificed. The laws given to Moses by God expressly forbade the Israelites to sacrifice children to Moloch, as the Egyptians and Canaanites did. A shrine to Moloch outside the walls of Jerusalem was destroyed during the reign of Josiah the reformer

any lizard of the genus Moloch god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice; "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life"- Norman Douglas

any lizard of the genus Moloch

The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance

In the Old Testament of the Bible, the supreme deity of Semitic heathenism whom the men of Judah once appeased by the sacrifice of their dearest possession, their own children Hence, any evil and vicious doctrine which requires the sacrifice of human lives

a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice; "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life"- Norman Douglas

Also applied figuratively

Any influence which demands from us the sacrifice of what we hold most dear Thus, war is a Moloch, king mob is a Moloch, the guillotine was the Moloch of the French Revolution, etc The allusion is to the god of the Ammonites, to whom children were “made to pass through the fire” in sacrifice Milton says he was “worshipped in Rabba, in Argob, and Basan, to the stream of utmost Arnon ” (Paradise Lost, book i 392-398 )

god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children

The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech

A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus)

Relevante Übersetzungen

genus moloch

genus of Australian desert lizard

Silbentrennung

Mo·loch

Etymologie

[ 'mä-l&k, 'mO-"lä ] (noun.) Late Latin, from Greek, from Hebrew MOlekh.