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ANAMELECH

Volume 1 · 48 words · 1778 Edition

an idol of the Sepharvaites, who are said in Scripture to have burned their children in honour of Adrammelech and Anamelech.—These idols probably signified the sun and moon. Some of the rabbins represent Anamelech under the figure of a mule; others under that of a quail or pheasant.