Ba'al-ha'nan (Heb. Ba'iil Chanan , 'SH bra, lord <f grace, or Baal is gracious), the name of two men.
1. (Sept. BaWatvwv and RaXaiwioi' v. r. BnXXt- vwv aiid BaXatwdp.) An early king of Edom, son of Achbor, successor of Saul, and succeeded by Hadar (Gen. xxxvi, 88, 39; 1 Chron. i, 49, 50). B.C. prob. ante 1619.
2. (Sept. BaWavav v. r. BaXXava.) A Gederite, royal overseer of " the olive-trees and sycamore-trees in the low plains" under David (1 Chron. xxvii, 28). B.C. L014. From his name we may conjecture that he was of Canaanitish extraction.
Ba'al-ha'zor (Heb. Ba'al Chatsor', "nsn bra, having a village; Sept, BaaXavwp v. r. RtXamop), the
place where Absalom kept his flocks, and held tin sheep-shearing feast at which Amnon was assassinated (2 Sam. xiii, 23). The Targum makes it " the plain of Hazor," and so Ewald (Isr. Gesch. ii, 639) ; but this localit}' would be far from that of the above passage, where it is said to have been " beside (Cr) Ephraim ;" not in the tribe of that name, but near the city called Ephraim, which was in the tribe of Benjamin, and is mentioned in 2 Chr. xiii, 19 ; John xi, 54. This Ephra- im is placed by Eusebius eight miles from Jerusa- lem on the road to Jericho, and is supposed by Reland to have been between Bethel and Jericho (Pala>stini, i, 377). Perhaps Baal-hazor is the same with Hazor (q. v.) in the tribe of Benjamin (Neh. xi, 33), now Asur in the vicinity indicated (see Schwarz, Palest, p. 133).
Ba'al - her'mon (Heb. Ba'iil Chermon , bra "(i-*n, lord of Hermon), the name of a city and a hill adjoining.
1. (Sept. makes two names, Bo«X 'Ep/.twv.) A town not far from Mount Hermon, mentioned as inhabited by the Ephraimites in connection with Bashan and Senir (1 Chron. v, 23). It was probably the same with the Baal-gad (q. v.) of Josh, xi, 17 (Robinson, Researches, new ed. iii, 409).
2. (Sept. translates 6'poc. too 'Aip/.uov, Mount Ihr- mon.) A mountain (~!l) east of Lebanon, from which the Israelites were unable to expel the Hivites (Judg-. iii, 3). This is usually considered as a distinct place from Mount Hermon ; but the only apparent ground
J for doing so is the statement in 1 Chron. v, 23, " unto Baal-hermon, and Senir, and [unto] Mount Hermon;" but it is quite possible that the conjunction " and" may be here, as elsewhere, used as an expletive-^" unto Baal-hermon, even Senir, even Mount Hermon." Perhaps this derives some color from the fact, which Ave know, that this mountain had at least three names (Deut. iii, 9). May not Baal-hermon have been a fourth, in use among the Phoenician worshippers of Baal, one of whose sanctuaries, Baal-gad, was at the foot of this very mountain ? — Smith. See Baalim.
Ba'ali (Heb. Baali' , hbS3, mylord, Sept. RaaXei/i), a colder and more distant title for husband, which the prophet reproaches the Jewish Church for hitherto ap- plying to Jehovah, instead of the more endearing term Ishi (my man, i. e. husband), which he predicts she would be emboldened to employ when freed from her idolatries (Hos. ii, 16). Some have supposed from this that the JewTs had even borrowed the term Baal from the surrounding nations as expressive of sover- eign deity, and so applied it to Jehovah ; but this is not likehy. See Baal.
Ba'alim (Heb. hab-beiilim' , cbrart, plural of Baal, with the def. article prefixed; Sept. BcraXi'//), according to most, images of the god Baal set up in temples and worshipped, usually in connection with those of Astarte (Judg. ii, 11; 1 Sam. vii, 4, etc.); according to others, various forms of Baal (Ort, Dienst der B. in Israel, Leyden, 1864). See Ashtoretii.
Baal seems to have been the general name for the deity among the Phoenicians and Carthaginians (Ser- vius, ad jEn. i, 729; "lingua Punica Deus B il dici- tur," Isidor. Orig. viii, 11), but with the article (bra!~t, hab-Baal, "the Baal'1) Baal distinctively, the chief male divinity (on the fern, i) RaaX, Rom. xi, 4, and often in the Sept. , see Winer, New Ted. Gr. § 205) of the Phoenician (i. e. proper Sidonian, Syrian, Cartha- ginian, and colonial Punic) race (hence the syllable -(iaXoc or -bal so often found at the end of their prop, er names, e. g. 'I3-o/3nXo£ or Ethbaal (q. v.), "Ay/SoXog [Herod, vii, 78], 'EwifiaXoc and Mfp/3d\oc [Joseph. Ap. i, 21]; also Hannibal, Ahibal, Adherbal, Hasdru- bal, Maharbal, etc. [comp. Fromann, Be cultu dei.r. ex ovofiaStoia illustri., Altdorf, 1744-45, p. 17 sq.] ; yet that the suffix in these names is not expressive of deity
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