Baal Definition

bääl, bäl, bāl
baalim, baals
noun
Any of various local fertility and nature gods of the ancient Semitic peoples considered to be false gods by the Hebrews.
American Heritage
Among some ancient Semitic peoples, orig., any of a number of local fertility gods; later, a chief god.
Webster's New World
A false god or idol.
American Heritage
A false god; idol.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
pronoun

(mythology) The supreme male deity of the Phoenician and Canaanite pantheons; a Mediterranean fertility deity, worshipped as far back as 1400 BCE.

Wiktionary
(biblical, in the plural) The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied.
Wiktionary
(biblical) One of the fallen angels of Satan.
Wiktionary
(often lowercase) A false deity or idol.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Baal

Noun

Singular:
Baal
Plural:
baals

Origin of Baal

  • From the Hebrew בעל (ba‘al, “lord, master, owner”), from Proto-Semitic *baʿl- (“lord, master, owner”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Hebrew ba‘al lord, Baal bʕl in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Baal Sentence Examples

  • To this Baal the productiveness of the soil was due.

  • As the female counterpart of the Phoenician Baal (viewed as a sun-god), and on the testimony of late writers (Lucian, Herodian) that she was represented with horns, the place-name AshterothKarnaim in Gilead ("Ashteroth of the horns") has been considered ample proof in favour of the theory.

  • The name Baal might therefore be used for any deity such as Milk (Milcom) or Shemesh (" sun ") who was the divine owner of the spot.

  • She is everywhere the great female principle, answering to the Baal of the Canaanites and Phoenicians 2 and to the Dagon of the Philistines.

  • Sometimes the god received a distinguishing attribute which indicates an association not with any particular place, but with some special characteristic; the most common forms are Ba'al-bamman, the chief deity of Punic north Africa, perhaps " the glowing Ba'al," the god of fertilizing warmth, and Baal-shamem, " Baal of the heavens."

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