Lexicon Bel: a chief Bab. deity Original Word: בֵּלPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Bel Phonetic Spelling: (bale) Short Definition: Bel NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originshort. form of BaalDefinitiona chief Bab. deity NASB TranslationBel (3).
Brown-Driver-Briggs בֵּל proper name, masculine a chief Babylonian deity (Babylonian Bêlu = בַּעַל, lord; Bêl regarded as older form than בַּעַל by Hpt Hebraica. i. 178; BAS i. 17) = Merodach (compare מרדך), tutelary god of Babylon (to be distinguished from older Bêlu, one of ancient Babylonian triad) Jeremiah 50:2 ("" מְרֹדַךְ) Jeremiah 51:44; Isaiah 46:1 ("" נְבֹו) — both writers of Babylonian period; — on Bel see COT Genesis 11:4; Judges 2:11; Say Rel. Babylonian 103, 110 Jen Kosmologie 24, 134, 307, 391. Strong's Bel By contraction for Ba'al; Bel, the Baal of the Babylonians -- Bel. see HEBREW Ba'al |
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