mil.kom names the figure to whom people bow, swear, or for whom worship sites are built in the cited verses.

mil.kom is used as the name of a figure associated with acts of worship: people bow to it, swear by it, and sites are built for it. The form is tagged Noun · Proper in three verses, while Zephaniah 1:5 has a common masculine singular construct tag within the clause about swearing by Milcom.

1. Named figure in worship and oath contexts · dominant

   In 1 Kings 11:33 the APB renders a list of figures to whom people bowed down, including “Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon”; 1 Kings 11:5 likewise places the proper-noun form after Solomon “walked after” another figure. In 2 Kings 23:13 the APB renders places built “for Milcom,” and in Zephaniah 1:5 it renders people who “swear by Milcom.”

   1 Kings 11:331 Kings 11:52 Kings 23:13Zephaniah 1:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “Milcom” in all four verses, with added descriptions in three contexts and with the clause “swear by Milcom” in Zephaniah 1:5. Those descriptions reflect the verse rendering rather than a separate definition of the term.