. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Chameleon (Chameleo vulgaris).—(Fbn.) better read as one plural word = rats, Ges.), trans-lated moles by the A. V. and Vulgate in Is. Perhaps no reference is made by the Hebrew. Blind Mole rat {Aspalax typhlvs).—(Fbn.) words to any particular animal, but to the holes andburrows of rats, mice, &c, which we know frequentruins and deserted places. Molech (Heb. dominion, rule, Fii.; see below).The fire-god Molech was the tutelary deity of thechildren of Ammon, and essentially identical withthe Moabitish Chemosh. Fire-gods appear to havebeen common
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Chameleon (Chameleo vulgaris).—(Fbn.) better read as one plural word = rats, Ges.), trans-lated moles by the A. V. and Vulgate in Is. Perhaps no reference is made by the Hebrew. Blind Mole rat {Aspalax typhlvs).—(Fbn.) words to any particular animal, but to the holes andburrows of rats, mice, &c, which we know frequentruins and deserted places. Molech (Heb. dominion, rule, Fii.; see below).The fire-god Molech was the tutelary deity of thechildren of Ammon, and essentially identical withthe Moabitish Chemosh. Fire-gods appear to havebeen common to all the Canaanite, Syrian, and Arabtribes, who worshipped the destructive element un-der an outward symbol, with the most inhumanrites. Among, these were human sacrifices, purifi-cations and ordeals by fire, devoting of the first-born, mutilation, and vows of perpetual celibacy andvirginity. To this class of divinities belonged theold Canaanitish Molech. The root of the wordMolech is the same as that of melech, or king,and hence he is identified with Malcham ( theirking) in 2 Sam. xii. 30 and Zeph. i. 5, the title bywhich he was known to the Israelites, as investedwith regal honors in his character of a tutelar
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