בַּעַל בְּרִיתBaʻal Bᵉrîyth
owner, lord
Pronunciation: bah'-al ber-eeth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1170
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
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Judges 8:33 As soon as Gideon died, the Israelites prostituted themselves by worshiping the images of Baal, making Baal-berith their god.
- Judges 9:4 They gave him seventy silver coins from the temple of Baal-berith, which he used to hire some reckless troublemakers who agreed to follow him.
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).