Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kolinsky <yishalom AT sbcglobal.net>]

Greetings Bill,
 
According to my work, 
 
Ba'al is an extension of Ba'a with an added L.  
 
Ba'ah literally means 'to enter into / probe" but in common usage it means 
"to search"
     see (Is21:12)(Jb30:24)
 
Ba'ah itself was transformed from Ba?ah (with an Aleph) meaning "to enter 
into / come"
 
Quite literally Ba'ah (with Ayin) means "for the male to engage in sexual 
intercourse" 
     see (Dt21:13;24:1)
 
but comes to mean husband, master, owner etc.
 
Ba'aL the pagan God is the "fornicator" of the earth responsible for the 
rains that bring forth crops, a fertility god.  The people engaged in sex 
with religious prostitutes as a form of worship of ba'al.
 
P.S. as I said, this all results from my own very extensive research.  it 
will not find support on this list, but i hope it was helpful.
 
David Kolinsky
Monterey, CA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:36:52 -0400
From: Bill <wrschmidt2 AT comcast.net>
Subject: [b-hebrew] Ba'al Bel Etymology
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Greetings,

I was just wondering if it would be at all reasonable to hypothesize 
that Ba'al and/or Bel were derived from an earlier 'Ba 'father' 
+  'L  followed by the loss of the initial glottal stop.

Thanks very much in advance for any help anyone can give me with this.

Bill