Baal
deity figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Bal · Baʻl · Habaʻl · הבעל · بعل · بل · هبعّل
in the texts
Letters
Pagan deity referenced in the biblical image of the seven thousand who refused to worship him.
And I pray indeed to be numbered among the seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The great Canaanite and Phoenician lord-god, whose name with the Hebrew article Zaydan takes to be the original of Hubal, and whose hilltop rites, human and animal sacrifices and oracular consultation he matches to the Arab cult.
In our view it is Hebrew or Phoenician, its original being “Habaʻl” הבעל, which is the name of the greatest of the idols of the Phoenicians or the Canaanites and of those neighbouring them among the nations of Syria, such as the Moabites, the Midianites, the Babylonians and the Libyans.
Third — that the modes of the Arabs' worship of Hubal resemble the modes of the Moabites' worship of Habaʻl.
Adversus Judaeos
Pagan deity to whom Israel became bound under Jeroboam's successors.
So too in later times, when kings ruled over them and with Jeroboam they worshipped golden calves and groves and bound themselves to Baal.