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. Judges 9:51 בַּעֲלֵ֣י ba.'a.Lei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and gat them up to the roof of the tower.

  2. Judges 19:22 בַּ֣עַל Ba.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.

  3. Judges 19:23 בַּ֣עַל Ba.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do not this folly.

  4. Judges 20:5 בַּעֲלֵ֣י ba.'a.Lei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they forced, and she is dead.

  5. 1 Samuel 23:11 בַעֲלֵי֩ va.'a.Lei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Jehovah, the God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And Jehovah said, He will come down.

  6. 1 Samuel 23:12 בַּעֲלֵ֧י ba.'a.Lei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me and my men into the hand of Saul? And Jehovah said, They will deliver thee up.

  7. 2 Samuel 1:6 וּבַעֲלֵ֥י u.va.'a.Lei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.

  8. 2 Samuel 11:26 בַּעְלָֽהּ׃ ba'.Lah · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.

  9. 2 Samuel 21:12 בַּעֲלֵ֖י ba.'a.Lei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa;

  10. 2 Kings 1:8 בַּ֣עַל Ba.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

  11. Nehemiah 6:18 בַּעֲלֵ֤י ba.'a.Lei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah to wife.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Job 31:39 בְּעָלֶ֣יהָ be.'a.Lei.ha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

  15. Proverbs 1:17 בַּ֥עַל Ba.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

  16. Proverbs 1:19 בְּעָלָ֣יו be.'a.Lav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  17. Proverbs 3:27 מִבְּעָלָ֑יו mi.be.'a.Lav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

  18. Proverbs 12:4 בַּעְלָ֑הּ ba'.Lah · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

  19. Proverbs 16:22 בְּעָלָ֑יו be.'a.Lav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it; But the correction of fools is their folly.

  20. Proverbs 17:8 בְעָלָ֑יו ve.'a.Lav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    A bribe is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it; Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

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