Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Cohen, Izzy" <Izzy_Cohen AT bmc.com>]

Michael Millier <deborahmillier AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> ... do you not think that KHEREM has an underlying 
> idea of human sacrifice (to YHWH?!?!)?  From the 
> word's various contexts, I think I'm inclined to 
> believe so.

het-resh-mem = banned, forbidden; anathema, taboo 
(compare Hermes who lived at Mt. Hermon and the 
Strait of Hormuz before he moved to Mt. Olympus) 
+
is a near (sound-alike) reversal of
mem-lamed-khaf = MoLeKH/Moloch, a Canaanite god
that required human sacrifice.

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