Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

A Hebrew "personal" name need not, in my opinion, be a word. I think  
that the name BAAL is the composition BA-AL, where BA is 'be' ('come'  
in the existential sense), and where AL is 'up', as in our EL and  
ELOHIYM.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:53 AM, Philip Hardy wrote:

> The word BAAL is or any english word(s) that derived from the same  
> Hebrew word that BAAL derived from, namley בעל, the original  
> Hebrew almost always has "הבעל". This I believe is best conveyed  
> or rendered in Enlish as "the owner", "the husband", "the master",  
> or "the lord".