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Strong's #1100: bliya`al (pronounced bel-e-yah'-al)

from 1097 and 3276; without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness (often in connection with 376, 802, 1121, etc.):--Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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belı̂ya‛al

1) worthlessness

1a) worthless, good for nothing, unprofitable, base fellow

1b) wicked

1c) ruin, destruction (construct)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H1097 and H3276



Usage:

This word is used 27 times:

Deuteronomy 13:13: "Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn"
Deuteronomy 15:9: "not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year,"
Judges 19:22: "the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about,"
Judges 20:13: "the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away"
1 Samuel 1:16: "thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance"
1 Samuel 2:12: "Now the sons of Eli of Belial; they knew not the LORD."
1 Samuel 10:27: "But the children of Belial How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought"
1 Samuel 25:17: "his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to"
1 Samuel 25:25: "regard this man of Belial, even Nabal:"
1 Samuel 30:22: "all men and men of Belial, of those that went"
2 Samuel 16:7: "thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:"
2 Samuel 20:1: "And there happened of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri,"
2 Samuel 22:5: "compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;"
2 Samuel 23:6: " But the sons of Belial shall be all thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:"
1 Kings 21:10: "two sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme"
1 Kings 21:13: "two children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial"
1 Kings 21:13: "and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence"
2 Chronicles 13:7: "men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son"
Job 34:18: "Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?"
Psalms 18:4: "of death me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid."
Psalms 41:8: " An evil disease, unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more."
Psalms 101:3: "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work"
Proverbs 6:12: " A naughty person, man, walketh with a froward mouth."
Proverbs 16:27: " An ungodly man evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire."
Proverbs 19:28: " An ungodly witness judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity."
Nahum 1:11: "evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor."
Nahum 1:15: "perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through"









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