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# בֵּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1078

**Bel** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Bel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1078/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֵּל²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1078/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a chief Babylonian deity (Bab. Bêlu = בַּעַל, lord; Bêl regarded as older form than בַּעַל by HptHbr i. 178; BAS i. 17) = Merodach (cf. מרדך), tutelary god of Babylon (to be distinguished from older Bêlu, one of ancient Babylonian triad) Je 50:2 (‖ מְרֹדַךְ) 51:44; Is 46:1 (‖ נְבֹו)—both writers of Babylonian period;—on Bel v. COT Gn 11:4 Ju 2:11; SayRel.Bab. 103, 110 JenKosmologie 24, 134, 307, 391.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Bel (3).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 46:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.1/#tree)

כָּרַ֥ע בֵּל֙ קֹרֵ֣ס נְב֔וֹ הָיוּ֙ עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֔ם לַחַיָּ֖ה וְלַבְּהֵמָ֑ה נְשֻׂאֹתֵיכֶ֣ם עֲמוּס֔וֹת מַשָּׂ֖א לַעֲיֵפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* he.has.bowed.down Bel \[is\].stooping.low Nebo they.belong idols their to the animal\[s\] and to the cattle burdens your \[are\].carried a.load for a.weary.\[animal\]

*JPS 1917:* Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle; the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.

[Jeremiah 50:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.2/#tree)

הַגִּ֨ידוּ בַגּוֹיִ֤ם וְהַשְׁמִ֙יעוּ֙ וּֽשְׂאוּ־נֵ֔ס הַשְׁמִ֖יעוּ אַל־תְּכַחֵ֑דוּ אִמְרוּ֩ נִלְכְּדָ֨ה בָבֶ֜ל הֹבִ֥ישׁ בֵּל֙ חַ֣ת מְרֹדָ֔ךְ הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ עֲצַבֶּ֔יהָ חַ֖תּוּ גִּלּוּלֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* declare among the nations and make.a.proclamation and lift.up a.standard make.a.proclamation do.not hide.\[it\] say it.will.be.captured Babylon it.will.be.put.to.shame Bel it.will.be.shattered Marduk they.will.be.put.to.shame images its they.will.be.shattered idols its

*JPS 1917:* Declare ye among the nations and announce, and set up a standard; announce, and conceal not; say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1078.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1078/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).