בַּעַל בְּרִית
Baal-berith
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Baal-berith’ fuller range ↓
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1170 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Judges 2 verses
- Judges 8:33 בַּ֥עַל בְּרִ֖ית n Proper n Proper It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
- Judges 9:4 בַ֣עַל בְּרִ֑ית n Proper n Proper They gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בעל ברית — transliterated Baʻal Bᵉrîyth — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Baal-berith.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Judges. Debuting at Judges 8:33, it then recurs through the corpus. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1170 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Judges 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Baalberith 2×
- American Standard Version: Baal-berith 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Baal-berith 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Baal 2×, Berith 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1170 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1170 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1170 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1170 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Baal-berith = "lord of the covenant"
- a god of the Philistines
Word origin
Derived from בעל (Baʻal) (H1168) — Baal.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H1170 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַ֣עַל | Noun, Proper | Judges 9:4 | 1 |
| בְּרִ֑ית | Noun, Proper | Judges 9:4 | 1 |
| בְּרִ֖ית | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:33 | 1 |
| בַּ֥עַל | Noun, Proper | Judges 8:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1170, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- Βααλ Báal G896 Baal
- בל Bêl H1078 Bel
- בעל גד Baʻal Gâd H1171 Baal-gad
- בעל זבוב Baʻal Zᵉbûwb H1176 Baal-zebub
- בעלידע Bᵉʻelyâdâʻ H1182 Beeliada
- בעל מעון Baʻal Mᵉʻôwn H1186 Baal-meon
- בעל פעור Baʻal Pᵉʻôwr H1187 Baal-peor
- בעל צפון Baʻal Tsᵉphôwn H1189 Baal-zephon
- בעל שלשה Baʻal Shâlishâh H1190 Baal-shalisha
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 12 — not the complete family. 10 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Baal-berith). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Covenant lord, the name of the god worshipped in Shechem after the death of Gideon (Judg. 8:33; 9:4). In 9:46 he is called simply "the god Berith." The name denotes the god of the covenant into which the Israelites entered with the Canaanites, contrary to the command of Jehovah (Ex. 34:12), when they began to fall away to the worship of idols.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
idol of the covenant
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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