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בַּעַל H1167

baʻal

bah'-al

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.

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.

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

78 occurrences

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  • Proverbs 31:23
    Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
  • Proverbs 31:28
    Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
  • Ecclesiastes 5:11
    When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
  • Ecclesiastes 5:13
    There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
  • Ecclesiastes 7:12
    For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
  • Ecclesiastes 8:8
    There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
  • Ecclesiastes 10:11
    Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
  • Ecclesiastes 10:20
    Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
  • Ecclesiastes 12:11
    The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
  • Isaiah 1:3
    The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.