Baal

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A storm and fertility god of the Phoenician and Canaanite pantheons, reckoned as chief of the gods by the 1st millennium BC.
• Various other Baalim, understood as distinct patron gods or as local patron aspects the great god Baal.
• One of the demons or fallen angels of Satan.

Origin

• From Late Latin Baal (as in the Vulgate) and Ancient Greek Βάαλ, from Hebrew בעל, from Proto-Semitic *baʿl- ("owner, lord, husband").