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Belial

בְּלִיַּ֫עַלStrong’s H1100

beliyyaal (be-liy-ya-al)

Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Beliyyaal is the Hebrew word usually translated “worthlessness” and “worthless person”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.

“Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;”
Deuteronomy 13:13 KJV
Meaning
  1. A name like sa.tan (שָׂטָן "Satan" H7854)
  2. Worthlessnessworthless, good for nothing, unprofitable, base fellow · wicked · ruin, destruction (construct)
How it's translated
  • worthlessness 23
  • and worthlessness 1
  • and a worthless person 1
  • worthless person 1
  • a worthless person 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Samuel 6
  • 2 Samuel 4
  • Psalms 3
  • Proverbs 3
  • Deuteronomy 2
  • Judges 2

10 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

בְּלִיַּ֫עַל beliyyaal · Belial

A name like sa.tan (שָׂטָן "Satan" H7854) This name means worthless, base, wicked

בְּלִיַּ֫עַל beliyyaal · Belial

: destruction 1) worthlessness 1a) worthless, good for nothing, unprofitable, base fellow 1b) wicked 1c) ruin, destruction (construct)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “belial” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BE'LIAL, noun

As a noun, unprofitableness; wickedness. As an adjective, worthless; wicked. In a collective sense, wicked men.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.