# H1170 בַּעַל בְּרִית

בַּעַל בְּרִית (Baʻal Bᵉrîyth), Strong’s H1170: Baal-Berith, a special deity of the Shechemites KJV: Baal-berith.. Occurs 4 times.

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*Baʻal Bᵉrîyth* — Baal-Berith, a special deity of the Shechemites

KJV: Baal-berith.

Built from [בַּעַל Baʻal](https://besorah.bible/word/H1168) (Baal, a Phoenician deity) + [בְּרִית bᵉrîyth](https://besorah.bible/word/H1285) (a compact) — means “Baal of (the) covenant”

Occurs 4 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/8?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=4) — They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless…