The meaning of Baal (2) in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
ba'-al ba'al, "lord," "master," "possessor"):
(1) A descendant of Reuben, Jacob's first-born son, and the father of Beerah, prince of the Reubenitcs, "whom Tiglath-pileser (I Chronicles 5:5-6) king of Assyria carried away captive."
(2) The fourth of ten sons of Jeiel (King James Version "Jehiel"), father and founder of Gibeon. His mother was Maacah; his brother Kish father oœ Saul (I Chronicles 8:29 f.; I Chronicles 9:35-36, I Chronicles 9:39; compare I Samuel 14:50 f.). These passages identify Jeiel and Abiel as the father of Kish and thus of Baal. For study of confusions in the genealogical record, in I Chronicles 9:36, I Chronicles 9:39, see KISH; ABIEL; JEIEL.
(3) In composition often the name of a man and not of the heathen god, e.g. Baal-hanan, a king of Edom (Genesis 36:38; I Chronicles 1:49); also a royal prefect of the same name (I Chronicles 27:28). Gesenius thinks that Baal in compound words rarely refers to the god by that name.
See BAAL (deity).
(4) A city of the tribe of Simeon (I Chronicles 4:33).
See BAALATH-BEER.
Dwight M. Pratt
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