Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H1169
בְּעֵל
beelbeh-ale'
commander
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bᵉʻêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1169is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1169
{a master; hence, a husband,}
The King James renders it: [phrase] chancellor.
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
beel is rendered "commander". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:8Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
The first use
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
Ezra 4:8בְּעֵל־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Ezra.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- lord of3
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.
1 spelling 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
- בְּעֵל־3
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3ANcbsc
Ezra
three uses
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
- בְּעֵל־beel-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lord 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,
- בְּעֵל־beel-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lord 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.
- בְּעֵל־beel-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lord of
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.