Strong’s H1170 · Hebrew
בַּעַל בְּרִית
Baʻal Bᵉrîyth · bah'-al ber-eeth'
Origin from בַּעַל (H1168) and בְּרִית (H1285); Baal of (the) covenant;
Meaning Baal-Berith, a special deity of the Shechemites
In the King James Version Baal-berith.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Judges 8:33And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
- Judges 9:4And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.