Chemosh

[ kee-mosh ]

noun

1. (in the Bible) a Moabite god.

Example Sentences

It appears also that Baal was a triple Divinity: while Chemosh, the abomination of the Moabites, and Baal Peor, of the Midians, seem to be the Priapæan Khem of Egypt, the god of heat and generation.

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In Kammusu-nadbi we have an instance of the occurrence of the name of Chemosh, the national god of the Moabites.

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See Kudur- Chedorlaomer, 209, 215; at first identified with Kudur-mabuk, 222; probably the Kudur-laḫmal, or Kudur-laḫgumal of the inscriptions, 223, 232 Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, 557, 559 ff.

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No wonder Solomon fell to worship Astarte, Chemosh, and Milcom.

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A district god of this kind was fashionable all over Syria at that time, each petty state or tribe having one of its own; such as Astart�, with the cross, of the Phoenicians; Moloch, of the Ammonites; Astoroth and Dagon, of the Philistines; Tammuz, or Adonis, of the Sidonians; Chemosh,* of the Moabites, etc., etc.; and why should not the Jews be armed with a god as well as their neighbors?

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