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Baal, n.

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Forms:  Plural Baalim.(Show Less)
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Etymology: < Hebrew ba'al lord.
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  The chief male deity of the Phœnician and Canaanitish nations; hence, transf. false god.

1382   Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges ii. 13   The sones of Yrael..serueden to Baalym and Astaroth.
1535   Bible (Coverdale) Judges ii. 13   Serued Baal and Astaroth.
1645   Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxii, in Poems 10   Peor, and Baalim, Forsake their Temples dim.
1835   J. Anderson Disc. Elijah App. 352   The title of Baal or Lord thus bestowed upon the objects of idolatry.

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  General attrib. as in Baal-priest, Baal-worship.

1834   T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix. 70/1   There are ‘true Priests, as well as Baal-Priests'.
1863   Notes & Queries 26 Sept. 251   Baal-worship prevailed in the pre-Christian era.

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