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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1100

בְּלִיַּעַל

beliaalbel-e-yah'-al

Belial

27 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: bᵉlîyaʻal

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1100is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1100

without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness

The King James renders it: Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked.

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

beliaal is rendered "Belial". It stands 27 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Six of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 13:13that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),

Deuteronomy 13:13בְלִיַּ֙עַל֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • worthlessness20
  • the worthlessness3
  • a worthless person1
  • and a worthless person1
  • and worthlessness1
  • worthless person1

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.

בְּלִיbeliwithoutUses58
בְּלוֹbelotributeUses3
בְּלוֹאbelooldUses3
בְּלִילbelilfodderUses3
בְּלָאbelato wear outUses1
בְּלִימָהbelimahnothingUsesnot recorded

All 27, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 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

  • בְּ֭לִיַּעַל4
  • בְלִיַּ֣עַל2
  • בְלִיַּ֜עַל2
  • בְלִיַּעַל֮2
  • בְּלִיָּ֑עַל2
  • בְלִיַּ֙עַל֙1
  • בְלִיַּ֗עַל1
  • בְלִיַּ֖עַל1
  • בְלִיַּ֔עַל1
  • בְלִיָּ֑עַל1
  • בְּלִיַּ֔עַל1
  • בְּלִיַּ֗עַל1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular22HNcmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),

    Deuteronomy 13:13

    • בְלִיַּ֙עַל֙veliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

    Deuteronomy 15:9

    • בְלִיַּ֜עַלveliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness

Judges

two uses
  • While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”

    Judges 19:22

    • בְלִיַּ֗עַלveliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.

    Judges 20:13

    • בְלִיַּ֜עַלveliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness

1 Samuel

six uses
  • Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

    1 Samuel 1:16

    • בְּלִיָּ֑עַלbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD

    1 Samuel 2:12

    • בְלִיָּ֑עַלveliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • But some worthless men said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him and brought him no gifts; but Saul remained silent about it.

    1 Samuel 10:27

    • בְלִיַּ֣עַלveliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”

    1 Samuel 25:17

    • בְּלִיַּ֔עַלbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent.

    1 Samuel 25:25

    • הַבְּלִיַּ֨עַלhabeliyaalthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the worthlessness
  • but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”

    1 Samuel 30:22

    • וּבְלִיַּ֗עַלuveliyaalconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and worthlessness

2 Samuel

four uses
  • And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!

    2 Samuel 16:7

    • הַבְּלִיָּֽעַל׃habeliyaalthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the worthlessness
  • Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”

    2 Samuel 20:1

    • בְּלִיַּ֗עַלbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

    2 Samuel 22:5

    • בְלִיַּ֖עַלveliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

    2 Samuel 23:6

    • וּבְלִיַּ֕עַלuveliyaalconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a worthless person

1 Kings

three uses
  • But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”

    1 Kings 21:10

    • בְלִיַּעַל֮veliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

    1 Kings 21:13

    • בְלִיַּעַל֮veliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
    • הַבְּלִיַּ֜עַלhabeliyaalthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the worthlessness

2 Chronicles

one use
  • Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.

    2 Chronicles 13:7

    • בְלִיַּ֔עַלveliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness

Job

one use
  • who says to kings, ‘You are worthless!’ and to nobles, ‘You are wicked,’

    Job 34:18

    • בְּלִיָּ֑עַלbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthless person

Psalms

three uses
  • The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

    Psalms 18:4

    • בְלִיַּ֣עַלveliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • “A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”

    Psalms 41:8

    • בְּ֭לִיַּעַלbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

    Psalms 101:3

    • בְּלִ֫יָּ֥עַלbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness

Proverbs

three uses
  • A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

    Proverbs 6:12

    • בְּ֭לִיַּעַלbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

    Proverbs 16:27

    • בְּ֭לִיַּעַלbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.

    Proverbs 19:28

    • בְּ֭לִיַּעַלbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness

Nahum

two uses
  • From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.

    Nahum 1:11

    • בְּלִיָּֽעַל׃ סbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: worthlessness
  • Look to the mountains—the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.

    Nahum 1:15

    • בְּלִיַּ֖עַלbeliyaalnoun · masculine singulartagged: a worthless person

The letters

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.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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