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["Ishnian" <ishinan AT comcast.net>]

Babel: The Akkadian Bab-ilu means "gate of God". a loan translation from an 
earlier Sumerian term, Ka-dingir. Trilateral root of  bAb  (gate or door)+ Il 
,  The Semitic diety  In the Canaanite religion,  El or Il was the supreme 
god, the father of humankind and all creatures and the husband of the goddess 
Asherah as recorded in the clay tablets of Ugarit. BAb has  medial alif.

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Ba`l : a trilateral root with a medial letter `ayn.  NO relation to bAb. Ba`l 
has several meanings and derivatives in various Semitic languages besides 
Hebrew, ( i.e. Ugaritic, Arabic, etc.)

These are the following:

1) The name of many deities of the Semitic peoples.  2) He became a husband, 
a lord over him,  A lord, a master, an owner, or a possessor. A chief, a 
ruler, a person of authority. 3) He  became fixed in his place like as do 
palm trees not knowing what to do, hence he became confounded and perplexed.  
( no relation to Babel).  4) The playing and toying together of a man with 
his wife, he lay with her. 5)  A weight or a burden,  A tax or impost that is 
given for watering of palm trees.  6) Lacking strength or power,  7) does not 
dress well.  8) Palm trees watered by rain, and finally  9) elevated land. 

Best regards,

Ishinan Ishibashi
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----- Original Message -----
From: Philip Hardy
Sent: 08/07/12 09:43 PM
To: Isaac Fried
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] baal

I am not convinced that the first B in BBL(בבל) is not a prefix added to 
בל. thus it would be "In Anxiety" or in Confusion and בעל might mean in 
elevating (self,or what should not be) is confusion.

----- Original Message -----
From: Isaac Fried
Sent: 08/07/12 08:45 PM
To: Philip Hardy
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] baal

What is Bel? It is related (in Hebrew everything is interrelated) to the 
בול עץ BUL EC, 'block of wood', (not that the BAAL is made of a block of 
wood) of Is. 44:19. As to BABEL, as I have said before, a name need not be a 
word, and its parsing may be open to more than one interpretation. It is 
possibly related to TEL ABIYB of Ez. 3:15. The partition BABELºB-EL, with BAB 
(recall the BAB-AT AYIN of Zec. 2:12) rendered 'door', so as to make BAB-EL = 
'god's door', is cute.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Aug 7, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Philip Hardy wrote:
Is word Baal related to Babel or Bel?
 Philip Hardy

----- Original Message -----
From: Isaac Fried
Sent: 08/07/12 03:33 PM
To: Nir cohen - Prof. Mat.
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] baal

 In what sense is BAAL ( the Greek Appolo?) a "deity"? Is he "the master of 
the universe"? Isaac Fried, Boston University On Aug 7, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Nir 
cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote: > as to "baal" the deity 
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