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• baal
  baal

  adverb

  no; not.
• Baal
  Baal

  noun

  any of numerous local deities among the ancient Semitic peoples, typifying the productive forces of nature and worshiped with much sensuality.

baal

¹ American  

[bahl] / bɑl /

adverb

Australian Slang.

1. no; not.

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Baal ² American  

[bey-uhl, beyl] / ˈbeɪ əl, beɪl /

noun

Baalim plural

1. any of numerous local deities among the ancient Semitic peoples, typifying the productive forces of nature and worshiped with much sensuality.

2. (sometimes lowercase) a false god.

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Baal British  

/ bɑːl /

noun

1. any of several ancient Semitic fertility gods

2. Phoenician myth the sun god and supreme national deity

3. (sometimes not capital) any false god or idol

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Baalish
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Baalim
  plural

Etymology

Origin of baal¹

Australian Pidgin English < Dharuk bí-al

Origin of Baal²

From the Hebrew word baʿal lord

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

baal Baal Baalim

No, no, boss!" cried Tommy, energetically, "baal you bogey longa that waterhole.

From Tom Gerrard by Becke, Louis

Marmy, baal you take 'em yarroman like 'it Hinchinbrook; my word, plenty of alligator sit down along of water.

From Australian Search Party by Bates, Henry Walter

I haue lefte me seuen thowsand in Israell / of which neuer man bowed his knees vnto baal / nor kissed hym with his mouthe.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter

I have reserved unto me seven thousand men which have not bowed their knees to baal.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

These princes bore the interesting names Azi-ba'al, Abi-ba'al, Aduni-ba'al, Sapati-baal, Pudi-baal, Ba'al-yašupu, Ba'al-ḫanunu, Ba'al-maluku, Abi-milki, and Aḫi-milki, showing the popularity of the element baal in the names of the people of Arvad.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge

Several different Mesopotamian civilizations worshipped Baal, who was considered the chief deity of weather and fertility.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

But whenever Baal appears, things perk up — because the dark magnetism that makes it so hard for Ida to get him out of her head works on the audience, too.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

“This season, investors are giving Big Oil a kind of climate reprieve, a climate pause,” said Mark van Baal, head of Follow This.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022

"We were positively surprised," said Follow This founder Mark van Baal.

From Reuters ● Mar. 14, 2022

There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil Baal in a dark corner.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

“We are all worshippers of Baalim, and so we had this joke between us where we insult each another, jovially, as brothers would.…”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Nor, indeed, are they Baalim at all in the strict sense of the word.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

But the lords indicated were Baalim who were Lords of the Sun.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar

Nor does this conclusion appear to be invalidated by the occurrence of the designation in a plural form, rendered Baalim.

From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Lord, Eleazar

Yet, ruler though he was, there were powers potenter than his own: Baalim, outraged at the elevation of a parvenu god; a priesthood consequently disaffected; and, without, at the gates, the foe.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar