Midvash

בֵּלBêl

proper name, masculine: a chief Babylonian deity (Jeremiah 50:2; Jeremiah 51:44; Isaiah 46:1; Genesis 11:4; Judges 2:11)

Pronunciation: bale · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1078

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Isaiah 46:1 Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, bow as they are lowered to the ground. They are being hauled away on ox carts. The poor beasts stagger under the weight.
  • Jeremiah 50:2 This is what the Lord says: “Tell the whole world, and keep nothing back. Raise a signal flag to tell everyone that Babylon will fall! Her images and idols will be shattered. Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced.
  • Jeremiah 51:44 And I will punish Bel, the god of Babylon, and make him vomit up all he has eaten. The nations will no longer come and worship him. The wall of Babylon has fallen!

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).