Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Philip Hardy" <technologist1 AT gmx.us>]

El or אל Is mighty or strength. על is up or elevated.

----- Original Message -----
From: Isaac Fried
Sent: 08/03/12 10:40 AM
To: Philip Hardy
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] יהוה vs הבעל

 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".