Bā'al, n.

n. [Heb. ba'al, lord.] (Myth.) The supreme male divinity of the Phenician and Canaanitish nations.

☞ The name of this god occurs in the Old Testament and elsewhere with qualifying epithets subjoined, answering to the different ideas which were formed of his character; as, Baal-Berith (the Covenant-Baal), Baal-zebub (Baal of the fly), &c.