Midvash

בַּעַל זְבוּבBaʻal Zᵉbûwb

owner, lord

Pronunciation: bah'-al zeb-oob' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1176

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 8 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 1:2 One day Israel’s new king, Ahaziah, fell through the latticework of an upper room at his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would recover.
  • 2 Kings 1:3 But the angel of the Lord told Elijah, who was from Tishbe, “Go and confront the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is there no God in Israel? Why are you going to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether the king will recover?
  • 2 Kings 1:6 They replied, “A man came up to us and told us to go back to the king and give him this message. ‘This is what the Lord says: Is there no God in Israel? Why are you sending men to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether you will recover? Therefore, because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will surely die.’”
  • 2 Kings 1:16 And Elijah said to the king, “This is what the Lord says: Why did you send messengers to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether you will recover? Is there no God in Israel to answer your question? Therefore, because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will surely die.”
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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).