בַּעַל

ba.al · master

Hebrew · Strong's H1167 · Noun · Sounds like: bah'-al · 84 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • master H1167G 35
  • master: husband H1167H · a Meaning of 14
  • master: men H1167I · a Meaning of 13
  • master: [master of] H1167K · a Meaning of 13
  • master: owning H1167J · a Meaning of 9

Strong's dictionary

from בָּעַל; a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense); [phrase] archer, [phrase] babbler, [phrase] bird, captain, chief man, [phrase] confederate, [phrase] have to do, [phrase] dreamer, those to whom it is due, [phrase] furious, those that are given to it, great, [phrase] hairy, he that hath it, have, [phrase] horseman, husband, lord, man, [phrase] married, master, person, [phrase] sworn, they of.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בַּעַל 166 n.m. owner, lord
I.
1. owner
2. husband
3. citizens, inhabitants
4. rulers, lords
5. n. of relation
II. Esp. lord, specif. as divine name, Baal.

Every occurrence

  1. Esther 1:17 בַּעְלֵיהֶ֖ן ba'.lei.Hen · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For this deed of the queen will come abroad unto all women, to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

  2. Esther 1:20 לְבַעְלֵיהֶ֔ן le.va'.lei.Hen · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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