Baal berit בַּעַל בְּרִית
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| בַּעַל בְּרִית | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | baal berit |
| Strong's number | H1170 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | title |
| Gloss | Baal-berith |
| Occurrences | 4 in 2 verses |
Baal berit (Hebrew בַּעַל בְּרִית, Strong's H1170) is a title in the Old Testament, glossed “Baal-berith”. It occurs 4 times.
Definition
§ Baal-berith = "lord of the covenant"
a god of the Philistines
a god of the Philistines
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | baal berith (2) |
|---|---|
| BSB | baal berith (2) |
Verses
Every verse with Baal berit, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Judges
- Judges 8:33And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal–berith their god.And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
- Judges 9:4And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal–berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).