Word Study · Strong's H1078 · Hebrew
בֵּל
Bel
bale
Strong's 1890 spelling: Bêl
“Bel, the Baal of the Babylonians”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Bel, the Baal of the Babylonians
Rendered in the KJV as
Bel.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- בֵּל֙2
- בֵּ֜ל1
How it is rendered · 1
- Bel3
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- proper noun (a name)3
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Where this word lives
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Jeremiah2 occurrences
- Jeremiah 50:2בֵּל֙belproper noun (a name)“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.’here: Bel
- Jeremiah 51:44בֵּ֜לbelproper noun (a name)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.here: Bel