Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #1078 - בֵּל Bel

Original Word:	בֵּל
Transliteration:	Bel
Phonetic Spelling:	(bale)
Definition:	a chief Bab. deity
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Masculine
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Bel

By contraction for Ba'al; Bel, the Baal of the Babylonians -- Bel.

see HEBREW Ba'al

Englishman's Concordance

Bel=“lord”
1) a chief Babylonian deity
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: by contraction for H1168

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בֵּלproper name, masculinea chief Babylonian deity (Babylonian Bêlu=בַּעַל, lord; Bêl regarded as older form than בַּעַל by Hpt^{Hebraica. i. 178}; BAS i. 17)=Merodach (compare מרדך), tutelary god of Babylon (to be distinguished from older Bêlu, one of ancient Babylonian triad) Jeremiah 50:2 ("" מְרֹדַךְ) Jeremiah 51:44; Isaiah 46:1 ("" נְבֹו) — both writers of Babylonian period; — on Bel see COT Genesis 11:4; Judges 2:11; Say^Rel. Babylonian 103, 110 Jen^{Kosmologie 24, 134, 307, 391}.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 1078. בֵּל (Bel) — 3 Occurrences

Isaiah 46:1
HEB: כָּרַ֥ע בֵּל֙ קֹרֵ֣ס נְב֔וֹ
NAS:Bel has bowed down, Nebo
KJV:Bel boweth down, Nebo
INT: has bowed Bel stoops Nebo

Jeremiah 50:2
HEB:בָבֶ֜ל הֹבִ֥ישׁ בֵּל֙ חַ֣ת מְרֹדָ֔ךְ
NAS: has been captured, Bel has been put to shame,
KJV: is taken, Bel is confounded,
INT: Babylon is confounded Bel has been Marduk

Jeremiah 51:44
HEB:וּפָקַדְתִּ֨י עַל־ בֵּ֜ל בְּבָבֶ֗ל וְהֹצֵאתִ֤י
NAS: I will punish Bel in Babylon,
KJV: And I will punish Bel in Babylon,
INT: will punish and Bel Babylon come

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