baal
IPA: bˈɑɫ
Root Word: Baal
noun
- (mythology, biblical) A storm and fertility god of the Phoenician and Canaanite pantheons, reckoned as chief of the gods by the 1st millennium BC.
- (mythology, biblical, sometimes lowercase) Various other Baalim, understood as distinct patron gods or as local patron aspects the great god Baal.
- (Christianity) One of the demons or fallen angels of Satan.
- a false deity or idol
- (obsolete, derogatory) Catholic or Orthodox icons of the saints.
Examples of "baal" in Sentences
- Better get that crystal baal of yours checked for defects.
- Judah's cause; in Jud 6: 32, Jerub, in Jerub-baal is so used, namely,
- Guy with a big whang @laura ka baal yes, boycott everyone who does not buy into radical Islam, sharia law and halal meat.
- Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages: 61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and
- Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
- Kapparot chickens which are not donated for a charitable purpose but are thrown out violate the grave Jewish prohibition of 'baal tashchis,' wasting necessary food in a world that is still so hungry.
- And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
- On the most basic level, teshuvah is the result of a sin in the literal sense, making the terms baal teshuvah and tzaddik mutually exclusive: one who hasn't actually transgressed the divine will cannot experience teshuvah and the powerful attraction to G-d only it can bring.
- A native of Brooklyn who studied at the Chaim Berlin and Ner Israel yeshivas, he helped establish several so-called baal teshuvah yeshivas for young men and women from secular backgrounds, before he became dean of Aish Hatorah, now located in the Old City of Jerusalem near the stairs to the Western Wall.