Words the Bible translates as baal
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ba'alבַּעַלBaal: the Canaanite storm god, credited with rain and harvest, whose worship Israel is condemned for taking up again and again
+2 more meanings
- the Baals: rival gods and their local shrines spoken of together in the plural, the whole tangle of worship Israel kept turning to instead of the LORD
- Baal: the same name used as a label on people and places, borne by Israelite men in the family records and attached to a southern town and to a ridge of hill shrines in Moab
- BaalΒάαλBaalnot studied yet
- ba'aliבַּעֲלִיBaalnot studied yet
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