H1170 בַּעַל בְּרִית
Baʻal Bᵉrîyth — Baal-Berith, a special deity of the Shechemites
KJV: Baal-berith.
Built from בַּעַל Baʻal (Baal, a Phoenician deity) + בְּרִית bᵉrîyth (a compact) — means “Baal of (the) covenant”
Occurs 4 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בַּעַל 166 n.m. owner, lord
- 1 owner
- 2 husband
- 3 citizens, inhabitants
- 4 rulers, lords
- 5 n. of relation
- II Esp. lord, specif. as divine name, Baal.
Where it occurs
- Judges 8:33 — As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made…
- Judges 9:4 — They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless…