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“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 supreme Baalim of the South Arabian inscriptions must thus have been of Babylonian origin.

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

For the Semitic Baalim admitted of no such grouping; each was supreme god in his own locality, where his powers were neither shared nor limited by another god.

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

When days of the Baalim are spoken of, every one must think of days specially consecrated to them,—their festivals.

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