or 'shameful thing'. [1] Moloch is sometimes also called Milcom in the Old Testament ( 1 Kings 11:5, 1 Kings 11:33, 2 Kings 23:13 and Zephaniah 1:5). [ citation needed ]   Forms and grammar The Hebrew letters מלך (mlk) usually stands for mele k 'king' (Proto-Northwest Semitic malku) but when