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# בַּעַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1168

**Baal** — used 77 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

Baal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1168/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּ֫עַל: n.pr.loc. n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1168/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city in the tribe of Simeon 1 Ch 4:33 = בַּעֲלַת בְּאֵר. n.pr.m. a Reubenite 1 Ch 5:5; a Gibeonite 1 Ch 8:30; 9:36.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Baal (54); Baals (15); \[the\] Baal (5).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 10:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.28/#tree)

וַיַּשְׁמֵ֥ד יֵה֛וּא אֶת־הַבַּ֖עַל מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.destroyed Jehu (et) (the) Baal from Israel

*JPS 1917:* Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

[2 Kings 10:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.20/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יֵה֗וּא קַדְּשׁ֧וּ עֲצָרָ֛ה לַבַּ֖עַל וַיִּקְרָֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Jehu consecrate an.assembly to (the) Baal and they.proclaimed.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* And Jehu said: 'Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.' And they proclaimed it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1168.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1168/): 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).