בְּלִיַּעַלbᵉlîyaʻal

Meanings

Same root

• בְּלִיbᵉlîy · H1097properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
• יַעַלyaʻal · H3276properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited)
• אִישׁʼîysh · H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
• אִשָּׁהʼishshâh · H802a woman
• בֵּןbên · H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
• ΒελίαλBelíal · G955worthlessness; Belial, as an epithet of Satan

Where it appears

Appears 27 times in the Bible.

• Deuteronomy 13:13 that scoundrels among you are leading their fellow citizens astray by saying, ‘Let us go worship other gods’—gods you have not known before.
• Deuteronomy 15:9 Do not be mean-spirited and refuse someone a loan because the year for canceling debts is close at hand. If you refuse to make the loan and the needy person cries out to the Lord, you will be considered guilty of sin.
• Judges 19:22 While they were enjoying themselves, a crowd of troublemakers from the town surrounded the house. They began beating at the door and shouting to the old man, “Bring out the man who is staying with you so we can have sex with him.”
• Judges 20:13 Give up those evil men, those troublemakers from Gibeah, so we can execute them and purge Israel of this evil.” But the people of Benjamin would not listen.
• 1 Samuel 1:16 Don’t think I am a wicked woman! For I have been praying out of great anguish and sorrow.”
• 1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were scoundrels who had no respect for the Lord