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In close transliteration of the Semitic name, the ayin is represented, as Baʿal. In such contexts, it follows the anglicized pronunciation and usually omits any mark between its two As. The word's biblical senses as a Phoenician deity and false gods generally were extended during the Protestant Reformation to denote any idols, icons of the saints, or the Catholic Church generally.

These forms in turn derive from the vowel-less Northwest Semitic form BʿL ( Phoenician and Punic: 𐤁𐤏𐤋).

The spelling of the English term 'Baal' derives from the Greek Báal ( Βάαλ which appears in the New Testament and Septuagint, and from its Latinized form Baal, which appears in the Vulgate.

That use was taken over into Christianity and Islam, sometimes under the form Beelzebub in demonology. The Hebrew Bible includes use of the term in reference to various Levantine deities, often with application towards Hadad, who was decried as a false god. Scholars previously associated the theonym with solar cults and with a variety of unrelated patron deities, but inscriptions have shown that the name Ba'al was particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad and his local manifestations. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods. əl/), or Baʻal ( Hebrew: בַּעַל baʿal), was a title and honorific meaning 'owner', ' lord' in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity.

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