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. Proverbs 18:9 לְבַ֣עַל le.Va.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.

  2. Proverbs 22:24 בַּ֣עַל Ba.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

  3. Proverbs 23:2 בַּ֖עַל Ba.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

  4. Proverbs 24:8 בַּֽעַל־ ba.'al- · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    He that deviseth to do evil, Men shall call him a mischief-maker.

  5. Proverbs 29:22 וּבַ֖עַל u.Va.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

  6. Proverbs 31:11 בַּעְלָ֑הּ ba'.Lah · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.

  7. Proverbs 31:23 בַּעְלָ֑הּ ba'.Lah · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

  8. Proverbs 31:28 בַּ֝עְלָ֗הּ ba'.Lah · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praiseth her, saying:

  9. Ecclesiastes 5:11 לִבְעָלֶ֔יהָ liv.'a.Lei.ha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding of them with his eyes?

  10. Ecclesiastes 5:13 לִבְעָלָ֖יו liv.'a.Lav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

  11. Ecclesiastes 7:12 בְעָלֶֽיהָ׃ ve.'a.Lei.ha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.

  12. Ecclesiastes 8:8 בְּעָלָֽיו׃ be.'a.Lav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

  13. Ecclesiastes 10:11 לְבַ֖עַל le.Va.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

  14. Ecclesiastes 10:20 וּבַ֥עַל u.Va.'al · A person, place or thing

    Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought; and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

  15. Ecclesiastes 12:11 בַּעֲלֵ֣י ba.'a.Lei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are the words of the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

  16. Isaiah 1:3 בְּעָלָ֑יו be.'a.Lav · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

  17. Isaiah 16:8 בַּעֲלֵ֤י ba.'a.Lei · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

  18. Isaiah 41:15 בַּ֖עַל Ba.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

  19. Isaiah 50:8 בַ֥עַל Va.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand up together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

  20. Jeremiah 37:13 בַּ֣עַל Ba.'al · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou art falling away to the Chaldeans.

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