Bible Names

Malcham: meaning of the name

Malcham means “Malchom, their king; their counselor.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Malcham in Hebrew and Greek

מַלְכָּם H4445

Malkâm (mal-kawm') — Malcam or Milcom, the national idol of the Ammonites

or מִלְכּוֹם; from H4428 (מֶלֶךְ) for H4432 (מֹלֶךְ);

Who named Malcham in the Bible

Malcham in Scripture

“Malcham” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 8:9

    And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,

  • Zephaniah 1:5

    And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;