Ba"al (?), n.; Heb. pl. Baalim (). [Heb. ba'al lord.]
1. Myth.
The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.
⇒ The name of this god occurs in the Old Testament and elsewhere with qualifying epithets subjoined, answering to the different ideas of his character; as, Baal-berith (the Covenant Baal), Baal-zebub (Baal of the fly).
2. pl.
The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied.
Judges x. 6.
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