Lexical Summary Bel: a chief Bab. deity Original Word: בֵּלTransliteration: Bel Phonetic Spelling: (bale) Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: a chief Bab. deity Meaning: Bel -- a chief Babylonian deity Strong's Concordance Bel By contraction for Ba'al; Bel, the Baal of the Babylonians -- Bel. see HEBREW Ba'al Brown-Driver-Briggs H1078. Bel בֵּל proper name, masculine a chief Babylonian deity (Babylonian Bêlu = בַּעַל, lord; Bêl regarded as older form than בַּעַל by HptHebraica. 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) 51:44; Isaiah 46:1 ("" נְבֹו) — both writers of Babylonian period; — on Bel see COT Genesis 11:4; Judges 2:11; SayRel. Babylonian 103, 110 JenKosmologie 24, 134, 307, 391. |
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