בעל זבוב

Hebrew

Etymology

Roots
ב־ע־ל‎
ז־ב־ב‎

From baʿal (“lord, master; Baal”) + זְבוּב‎ (zvuv, “fly”, the insect), appearing in the Hebrew Scriptures as the purported name of a deity worshipped by the Philistines in Ekron.

Proper noun

בַּעַל זְבוּב‎ • (Ba'al Zvuv) m

Beelzebub, the lord of the flies, a Philistine god sometimes identified by Jews and Christians with Satan

References

H1176 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

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