Commander
בְּעֵלStrong’s H1169beel (be-el)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beel is the Aramaic word usually translated “lord of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:”
Meaning
- Owner, lord
How it's translated
- lord of 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 4:9Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,
- Ezra 4:17Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.
Aramaic dictionary
בְּעֵל beel · commander
owner, lord Aramaic of ba.al (בַּעַל ": master" H1167)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “commander” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMMANDER, noun
- A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.
- One on whom is bestowed a benefice or commandry.
- A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, etc.
- An instrument of surgery.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.