Hebrew n-m-t · H1078
בֵּל
Belbale
Bel
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Bêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1078is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1078
Bel, the Baal of the Babylonians
The King James renders it: Bel.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Bel is rendered "Bel". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 46:1Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
Isaiah 46:1בֵּל֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Bel3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בֵּל֙2
- בֵּ֜ל1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)3HNpt
Isaiah
one use
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- בֵּל֙belproper noun (a name)tagged: Bel
Jeremiah
two uses
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
- בֵּל֙belproper noun (a name)tagged: Bel
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
- בֵּ֜לbelproper noun (a name)tagged: Bel
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.