Strong's Hebrew · H1166

בָּעַל

bâʻal · baw-al'

have dominion (over), be husband, marry(-ried, [idiom] wife).

Definition

to be master; hence, to marry

Derivation

a primitive root; also as denominative from H1167 (בַּעַל)

Appears 16 times in Scripture

Isaiah 26:13

O LORD our God, other lords besides You have ruled over us, but Your name alone do we confess.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Jeremiah 31:32

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

Deuteronomy 21:13

and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

Proverbs 30:23

an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.

Malachi 2:11

Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

Deuteronomy 24:1

If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

1 Chronicles 4:22

Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.)

Genesis 20:3

One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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