baal
adverb
no; not.
baal
1 American
[bahl]
/ bɑl /
adverb
Australian Slang.
Baal
2
American
[bay-uhl, bayl]
/ ˈbeɪ əl, beɪl /
noun
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Baalim
plural
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any of numerous local deities among the ancient Semitic peoples, typifying the productive forces of nature and worshiped with much sensuality.
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(sometimes lowercase) a false god.
Baal
British
/ bɑːl /
noun
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any of several ancient Semitic fertility gods
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Phoenician myth the sun god and supreme national deity
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(sometimes not capital) any false god or idol
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Etymology
Origin of baal1
Australian Pidgin English < Dharuk bí-al
Origin of Baal2
From the Hebrew word baʿal lord
Example Sentences
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Mine tell Leather fellow jump right away, and police fellow baal find.”
From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by L. Rahey
Marmy, baal you take 'em yarroman like 'it Hinchinbrook; my word, plenty of alligator sit down along of water.
From Australian Search Party by Henry Walter Bates
“Mine wear baal clothes,” he said pityingly, as he, with his skin dry directly, looked at their efforts to dry themselves.
From The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
No, no, boss!" cried Tommy, energetically, "baal you bogey longa that waterhole.
From Tom Gerrard by Louis Becke
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 include the veneration of El, the head of the pantheon and often associated with Yahweh, and of Yahweh’s consort Asherah, the storm god Baal, the fertility goddess Astarte, and many others.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
“It is going to be a tough year,” said Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, which organizes shareholders to demand oil companies move more aggressively into clean energy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023
Before he read the opening passage from “The Satanic Verses,” Mr. Kunzru quoted a line from another part of the book, when the irreverent poet Baal defines a poet’s purpose.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2022
"Maybe in the very short term they have to replace Russia supply with oil from other countries. But in the long term we don't need more oil and gas," Van Baal said.
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
We believe that the first indicate ideas like that associated with Baalim, and Ashtaroth in the plural, the second that of Astarte or Venus in the singular.
From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman
The days of the Baalim are afterwards specially mentioned in ver.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
Where the religions of the Semite and the Sumerian met and combined, the Sumerian spirits who had emerged above the rest like Ea of Eridu or El-lil of Nipur, were assimilated to the Semitic Baalim.
From A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
"And I take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name."
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
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