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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

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

Mine tell Leather fellow jump right away, and police fellow baal find.”

From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by Rahey, L.

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

From Tom Gerrard by Becke, Louis

“Why, aunt, baal means none, or not any.”

From The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

These included the Great Colonnade, the city’s main street, and a famous temple dedicated to the god Baal.

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

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

"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

Baalim was sniffing round his master's house as usual, on the lookout for a canine encounter, when he saw this woman.

From Settling Day by Gould, Nat

The days of God are taken from them; for the days of the Baalim they are punished.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

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