Word Study · Strong's H1169 · Hebrew
בְּעֵל
beel
beh-ale'
Strong's 1890 spelling: bᵉʻêl
“{a master”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
{a master; hence, a husband,}
Rendered in the KJV as
[phrase] chancellor.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 1inflected formdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 1
- בְּעֵל־3
How it is rendered · 1
- lord of3
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3
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- ANcbsc · 3
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The ledger of occurrences
Ezra3 occurrences
- Ezra 4:8בְּעֵל־beel-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:here: lord of
- Ezra 4:9בְּעֵל־beel-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates—the judges and officials over Tripolis, Persia, Erech and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,here: lord of
- Ezra 4:17בְּעֵל־beel-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.here: lord of