בַּעַלBaʻal
owner, lord
Pronunciation: bah'-al · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1168
Meanings
I.
1. owner (Exodus 21:28; Exodus 21:29; Exodus 22:10)
2. husband (Genesis 20:3; Exodus 21:3; Exodus 21:22)
3. citizens, inhabitants (Joshua 24:11; Numbers 21:28; Judges 9:2)
4. rulers, lords (Isaiah 16:8)
5. noun of relation
II. Baal, Especially II. lord, specifically as divine name
1. without article (Numbers 22:41; Numbers 25:3; Numbers 25:5)
2. with article (Judges 2:13; Judges 6:25; Judges 6:28)
3. the great lord, the sovereign owner, emphatic plural (Judges 2:11; Judges 3:7; Judges 8:33)
4. with attributive (Judges 8:33; Judges 9:4; Judges 9:46)
Same root
- בַּעַלbaʻal · H1167a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
- ΒάαλBáal · G896Baal, a Phœnician deity (used as a symbol of idolatry)
- אֶשְׁבַּעַלʼEshbaʻal · H792Eshbaal (or Ishbosheth), a son of Saul
- אֶתְבַּעַלʼEthbaʻal · H856Ethbaal, a Phoenician king
- בֵּית בַּעַל מְעוֹןBêyth Baʻal Mᵉʻôwn · H1010Beth-Baal-Meon, a place in Palestine
- בֵּלBêl · H1078Bel, the Baal of the Babylonians
- בָּמוֹתBâmôwth · H1120Bamoth or Bamoth-Baal, a place East of the Jordan
- בַּעַל בְּרִיתBaʻal Bᵉrîyth · H1170Baal-Berith, a special deity of the Shechemites
Where it appears
Appears 82 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 22:41 The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth-baal. From there he could see some of the people of Israel spread out below him.
- Joshua 13:17 It included Heshbon and the other towns on the plain—Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,
- Judges 2:11 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight and served the images of Baal.
- Judges 2:13 They abandoned the Lord to serve Baal and the images of Ashtoreth.
- Judges 3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. They forgot about the Lord their God, and they served the images of Baal and the Asherah poles.
- Judges 6:25 That night the Lord said to Gideon, “Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the one that is seven years old. Pull down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole standing beside it.
See every passage
- Numbers 22:41
- Joshua 13:17
- Judges 2:11, 2:13, 3:7, 6:25, 6:28, 6:30, 6:31, 6:32, 8:33, 10:6, 10:10
- 1 Samuel 7:4, 12:10
- 1 Kings 16:31, 16:32, 18:18, 18:19, 18:21, 18:22, 18:25, 18:26, 18:40, 19:18, 22:53
- 2 Kings 3:2, 10:18, 10:19, 10:20, 10:21, 10:22, 10:23, 10:25, 10:26, 10:27, 10:28, 11:18, 17:16, 21:3, 23:4, 23:5
- 1 Chronicles 4:33, 5:5, 8:30, 9:36
- 2 Chronicles 17:3, 23:17, 24:7, 28:2, 33:3, 34:4
- Jeremiah 2:8, 2:23, 7:9, 9:14, 11:13, 11:17, 12:16, 19:5, 23:13, 23:27, 32:29, 32:35
- Hosea 2:8, 2:13, 2:17, 11:2, 13:1
- Zephaniah 1:4
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).