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Baal

Baal (/ˈbeɪ.əl, ˈbɑːl/), or Ba'al (/bɑː.ɑːl/), was a title and honorific meaning "owner" or "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods. Scholars previously associated the theonym with solar cults and with a variety of unrelated patron deities, but inscriptions…

Semitic religion, Name & Judaism

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Arabic
Hubal
Aramaean and Mesopotamian
Hadad
Consorts
possibly Anat or Athtart
Egyptian
Set (due to being a foreign god in Egypt, since Set was the god of foreigners – otherwise Baal Zephon, equivalent to Baʿal Hadad, was also equated with Horus)
Greek
Zeus
Hurrian
Teshub

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Baal

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related to Baʿal · 46
Baal → Alternatively, Anxiety, As, Ba, Baalbeck, Baʿal, Baʿal Rāpiʾuma, Baʿal's, Book, Both Baʿal, Bʿl Rpu, Bṯn, Canaan, Canaanite, Canaanites, Dagan, Daniel, Egypt, El, Fugitive Serpent
related to Yahweh · 43
Baal → According, Baʻal, Baʻaliada, Baʿal, Baʿali, BC, Bealiah, Beeliada, Canaanite, David's, Eshbaʻal, Eshbaʿal, Gideon, Great, Hebrew, Hebrews, However, However John Day, Israel, Israel Yahweh
related to Baʿal Berith · 35
Baal → Abimelech, An, Baal's, Baal-worship, Baʿal, Baʿal Berith, Baʿalim, Canaanite, Covenant, El, El Berith, El Elyon, El Shaddai, El Yahweh, Gideon, Gideon's, Hebrew, Hebrew Scriptures, House, However
related to Beelzebub · 27
Baal → Ahaziah, Ahaziah's, Baäl, Baälzeboúb, Baʿal, Baʿal Zebub, Beëlzeboúl, Ebionite, Ekron, Elijah, Flies, Fly-Lord, Hebrew, In, Israel, Jewish, Kings, Lord, Philistine, Prince Baal
related to Etymology · 27
Baal → Akkadian Bēlu, Amharic, Amorite, Arabic, Aramaic, As, Baʿal, Báʿal, Catholic Church, Cognates, English, Greek Báal, Hebrew, In, Latinized, New Testament, Northwest Semitic, Phoenician, Protestant Reformation, Punic
related to Further reading · 16
Baal → BRILL, Essays, Esther, Hamori, Harvard Semitic Studies, Honor, II, ISBN, Leiden, Mark, Mighty Baal, Pitard, Russell, Smith, Stephen, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle
related to Christianity · 13
Baal → Ashtaroth, Baalim, Beelzebub, Beelzebul, Brook, Earth, Egypt, Euphrates, John Milton's, New Testament, Paradise Lost, Satan, Syrian
related to External links · 12
Baal → Astarte Worship, Baal-Berith, Baal-Peor, Baalim, Baʻal, Baʻal Worship, Funk, Hebrews, Jewish Encyclopedia, New International Encyclopedia, New York, Wagnalls
related to Conspiracy theories · 11
Baal → American, Bank Name, DOJ, Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Justice, OCR, On January, Some, The, United States Department
related to Burning of Baal effigies · 10
Baal → AM, Gods, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Muslims, On February, Performance, These, They, This

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baʿal god hebrew yahweh name also worship lord ugaritic hadad el fertility gods one semitic hammon phoenician used arabic ba'al

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
BaalArabicHubal1.00infobox
BaalAramaean and MesopotamianHadad1.00infobox
BaalConsortspossibly Anat or Athtart1.00infobox
BaalEgyptianSet (due to being a foreign god in Egypt, since Set was the god of foreigners – otherwise Baal Zephon, equivalent to Baʿal Hadad, was also equated with Horus)1.00infobox
BaalGreekZeus1.00infobox
BaalHurrianTeshub1.00infobox
BaalOffspringPidray, Tallay, Arsay1.00infobox
BaalParentsDagan and Shalash (in Syria)1.00infobox
BaalParentsEl and Athirat (in some Ugaritic texts)1.00infobox
BaalRegionPhoenicia1.00infobox
BaalRegionAncient Syria, especially Halab1.00infobox
BaalRegionNear, around and at Ugarit1.00infobox
BaalRegionCanaan1.00infobox
BaalRegionNorth Africa1.00infobox
BaalRegionMiddle Kingdom of Egypt1.00infobox
BaalSiblingsHebat (in Syrian tradition), Anat1.00infobox
BaalSymbolBull, ram, thunderbolt1.00infobox
Baalis aterm used by Arabs to denote everything which is a lord over anything.Al-Thaʿlabī offers a more detailed description about Baal0.90text

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    Baal

    Nodes246
    Edges245
    Triples271
    Avg. degree1.99
    Density0.00813
    Components1
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