Strong's Hebrew · H1166
H1166 bâʻal
בָּעַל
baw-al'
Married
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bâʻal appears 16 times in Scripture, including Genesis 20:3 and Deuteronomy 21:13. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to be master; hence, to marry
In the King James Version
have dominion (over), be husband, marry(-ried, × wife).
Derivation
a primitive root; also as denominative from H1167 (בַּעַל)
Appears 16 times in Scripture
“O LORD our God, other lords besides You have ruled over us, but Your name alone do we confess.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.)”
“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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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).