Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H1166
בָּעַל
baalbaw-al'
Married
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâʻal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1166is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1166
to be master; hence, to marry
The King James renders it: have dominion (over), be husband, marry(-ried, [idiom] wife).
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
baal is rendered "Married". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 20:3One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
Genesis 20:3בְּעֻ֥לַת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's fifteen uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- married of2
- a married1
- and he will marry her1
- and it has married1
- he marries1
- husbands your1
- I am husband1
- I was a husband1
- it will be married1
- married1
- she will be married1
- they have ruled over us1
and 2 more, 15 uses in all
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 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 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
- בְעוּלָ֖ה1
- בְּעוּלָ֑ה1
- בָּעֲל֥וּ1
- בְּעָל֥וּנוּ1
- בֹעֲלַ֙יִךְ֙1
- בְּעֻ֥לַת1
- בְעֻֽלַת־1
- בָּעַ֣לְתִּי1
- בָּעַ֥לְתִּי1
- וּבָעַ֖ל1
- וּבְעָלָ֑הּ1
- יִבְעַ֤ל1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVNi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular2HVqsfsa
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HVqsfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Vqp3ms
- Hc/Vqq3ms/Sp3fs1Hc/Vqq3ms/Sp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HVqi3mp/Sp2fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HVqp3cp/Sp1bp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HVqrmpc/Sp2fs
Genesis
one use
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
- בְּעֻ֥לַתbeulatverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: married of
Deuteronomy
two uses
If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
- בְעֻֽלַת־veulat-verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: married of
If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
- וּבְעָלָ֑הּuvealahHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he will marry her
1 Chronicles
one use
Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea, Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.)
- בָּעֲל֥וּbaaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they ruled
Proverbs
one use
an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
- תִבָּעֵ֑לtibaelverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will be married
Isaiah
seven uses
O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion, but Your name alone do we confess.
- בְּעָל֥וּנוּbealunuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: they have ruled over us
“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
- בְעוּלָ֖הveulahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: a married
For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
- בֹעֲלַ֙יִךְ֙voalayikhverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: husbands your
No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
- בְּעוּלָ֑הbeulahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: married
- תִּבָּעֵֽל׃tibaelverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be married
For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
- יִבְעַ֤לyivalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he marries
- יִבְעָל֖וּךְyivalukhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: they will marry you
Jeremiah
two uses
“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
- בָּעַ֣לְתִּיbaaltiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am husband
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
- בָּעַ֥לְתִּיbaaltiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I was a husband
Malachi
one use
Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
- וּבָעַ֖לuvaalconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and it has married
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 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.