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  1. any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples; the Hebrews considered Baal a false god
  2. Ba‛al (Biblical Hebrew בעל, , also spelled Baal in English) is a Northwest Semitic title and honorific meaning "master" or "lord" that is used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant, cognate to Akkadian Bēlu. A Baalist or Baalite means a worshipper of Baal.
  3. The British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) is an academic society for professional applied linguists, language teachers and other interested parties, based in the United Kingdom. ...
  4. Baal is a Danish rock band starting out in 1994 in Copenhagen. Besides their studio records, Baal has also created music for three musicals. Baal started out as a David Bowie cover band under a different name, and later changed name to Baal and started writing their own music.
  5. Baal is a fictional character from a comic book by Marvel Comics. He was the leader of the Sandstormers who found Apocalypse as a baby and raised him.
  6. Baal (sometimes spelled Bael, Baël (French), Baell usually pronounced "bail") is one of the seven princes of Hell. He is mentioned widely in the Old Testament as the primary pagan idol of the Phoenicians, often associated with the heathen goddess Ashtaroth (not to be confused with Astaroth)
  7. Diablo is an action role-playing game franchise owned and produced by Blizzard Entertainment. , the series has sold over 18.5 million copies worldwide.
  8. Baal is an EP by David Bowie, comprising recordings of songs written for Bertolt Brecht’s play Baal. It is sometimes referred to as David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal, as credited on the sleeve.
  9. Baal is a hamlet in the Dutch town Lingewaard, located in the province of Gelderland. It is located 1 kilometer north of Haalderen and is therefore part of Haalderen.
  10. Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht.Willett (1967, 22-23). It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in several sexual affairs and at least one murder. ...
  11. This is a list of the Goa'uld characters that have appeared so far in Stargate, Stargate SG-1, and Stargate Atlantis. In the Stargate fictional universe, the Goa'uld are a parasitic alien race that use other beings as hosts. ...
  12. the supreme male deity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish pantheons; a Mediterranean fertility deity whose worship was characterised by the sexual acts of his followers during periodic rituals, along with occasional human sacrifice and frequent temple prostitution, worshipped as far back as 1400 ...
  13. Another word for foot in the Korean language.
  14. {bahal}.   n. al.; n. constr. baalin.   coral species; reef edge.
  15. The storm god, and thus a fertility god; the central deity in most of the surviving Canaanite myth; son of Dagon, god of grain; comparable to Zeus. (Can.)
  16. Usually Baal (also spelled ba’al) refers to one or a number of Canaanite gods. It can be used as a general term for Canaanite gods (e.g., Judg 2:11), as a part of the name of a specific god (as Baal-berith, Judg 8:33), or as a proper name for a specific god in Canaanite mythology (e.g. ...
  17. A Canaanite god.  The word means "lord" or "husband."  He was a god of weather, associated with thunder, who appointed the times of the rains, and was considered to be the son of the pagan god Dagon. ...
  18. Teshuvah (lit. “a returnee”)—one who has become
  19. meaning "lord," Baal, the god worshiped by the Canaanites and Phoenicians, was variously known to them as the son of Dagon and the son of El. He was believed to give fertility to the womb and life-giving rain to the soil (NIV Study Bible).
  20. n. An old deity formerly worshipped under various names. As Baal, the Phoenicians worshipped him as the Sun-god. As Beelzebub, his is the god of flies, which are begotten of the sun’s rays on stagnant water. ...
  21. A deity that was worshipped regularly throughout much of the ancient Near East, particularly by the Canaanite's. ...
  22. 1. Baal or the female form Baalat comes from Mesopotamia and means the lord of a city in Phoenicia.
  23. an ancient Semitic fertility god represented as a golden calf.
  24. (Lord). Among the Phoenicians the chief male divinity who appears to have symbolized the Sun, more particularly the Sun in Taurus. Baal was worshipped in agricultural festivals as the god of fertility of soil and increase of flocks. ...
  25. The storm god in Canaanite religion (cf. "Zeus" in Greek mythology).