BELIAL (BELIAR).This word, rendered by AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] as a proper noun in the majority of the OT passages, is in reality a compound, meaning worthlessness, whence wickedness, destruction, and as such is construed with another noun. In the sense of wickedness, it occurs in 1Sa 1:16 daughter of wickedness, i.e. a wicked woman (cf. Deu 13:13; Deu 15:9, Jdg 9:22; Jdg 20:13, 1Sa 2:12; 1Sa 10:27; 1Sa 25:17; 1Sa 25:25, 2Sa 16:7; 2Sa 20:1; 2Sa 23:6, 1Ki 21:10; 1Ki 21:13, 2Ch 13:7, Pro 6:12; Pro 16:27; Pro 19:28, for similar usage). As destruction, it is found in Psa 17:5 (cf. 2Sa 22:5) Psa 41:8 and Nah 1:11; Nah 1:15 (note in Nah 1:15 independent use, man understood; RV [Note: Revised Version.] wicked one; others, destroyer). Having such a meaning, it is used by St. Paul as a name for Satan (personification of unclean heathenism, 2Co 6:15), the Greek text spelling it Beliar (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] Belial), a variation due to the harsh pronunciation of l in Syriac.<\/p>\n
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Belial (Beliar) BELIAL (BELIAR).This word, rendered by AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] as a proper noun in the majority of the OT passages, is in reality a compound, meaning worthlessness, whence wickedness, destruction, and as such is construed with another noun. In the sense of wickedness, it occurs in 1Sa 1:16 … Continue reading “Belial (Beliar)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}