Baal-gad
בַּ֫עַל גָּדStrong’s H2768baal gad (ba-al gad)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Baal gad is the Hebrew word usually translated “hermon”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;”
Meaning
- Baal-gad = "lord of fortune"
How it's translated
- hermon 11
- and hermon 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 6
- Deuteronomy 3
- Psalms 2
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Song of Solomon 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 3:9(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
- Deuteronomy 4:48From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
- Joshua 11:3And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
- Joshua 11:17Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
- Joshua 12:1Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
- Joshua 12:5And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
Hebrew dictionary
בַּ֫עַל גָּד baal gad · Baal-gad
Baal-gad = "lord of fortune" a city noted for Baal-worship, located at the most northern or northwestern point to which Joshua's victories extended Another name of cher.mon (חֶרְמוֹן "(Mount )Hermon" H2768)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.