Hebrew n-m-t · H1176
בַּעַל זְבוּב
Baal Zebubbah'-al zeb-oob'
Baal-zebub
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Baʻal Zᵉbûwb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1176is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1176
Baal-Zebub, a special deity of the Ekronites
The King James renders it: Baal-zebub.
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 Zebub is rendered "Baal-zebub". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Eight of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 1:2Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
2 Kings 1:2בְּבַ֤עַל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's eight uses are in 2 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in Baal4
- Zebub4
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּעַל | baal | master | Uses84 |
| בַּעַל | Baal | Baal | Uses82 |
| בַּעַל פְּעוֹר | Baal Peor | Baal of Peor | Uses12 |
| בַּעַר | baar | stupid | Uses5 |
| בַּעֲלָה | baalah | mistress | Uses4 |
| בַּעַל בְּרִית | Baal Berith | Baal-berith | Uses4 |
| בַּעֲלִי | Baali | Baal | Uses1 |
| בַּעֲלֵי בָּמוֹת | Baale Bamoth | Baal-bamothite | Usesnot recorded |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- בְּבַ֥עַל2
- זְב֖וּב2
- בְּבַ֤עַל1
- בְּבַ֣עַל1
- זְבוּב֙1
- זְבוּב֮1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HR/Ncmsc
2 Kings
eight uses
Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
- בְּבַ֤עַלbevaalpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in Baal
- זְבוּב֙zevuvnoun · masculine singulartagged: Zebub
But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
- בְּבַ֥עַלbevaalpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in Baal
- זְב֖וּבzevuvnoun · masculine singulartagged: Zebub
They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”
- בְּבַ֥עַלbevaalpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in Baal
- זְב֖וּבzevuvnoun · masculine singulartagged: Zebub
And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”
- בְּבַ֣עַלbevaalpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in Baal
- זְבוּב֮zevuvnoun · masculine singulartagged: Zebub
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.