baal · marry; be master

What it means

baal (בָּעַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “marry; be master”.

Marry a woman, be her husband; rule over, be master. "Married to a husband" is a woman who already has one.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To take a wife, be her spouse.
2. To rule over others.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• married ×7
• husband ×5
• ruled ×2
• marries ×1
• will marry you ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×2
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 20:3

  But Elohim came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Look, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married to a husband.”

• Deuteronomy 21:13

  and she shall remove the garment of her captivity from herself, and she shall stay in your house and weep for her father and her mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

• Deuteronomy 22:22

  If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.

• Deuteronomy 24:1

  When a man takes a woman and becomes her husband, and it happens, if she does not find favor in his eyes because he has found in her a nakedness of something, and he writes for her a document of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house,

• 1 Chronicles 4:22

  and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And the things are ancient.

• Proverbs 30:23

  under a hated woman when she is married, and a maidservant when she becomes heir to her mistress.

• Isaiah 26:13

  YHWH our Elohim, lords besides you have ruled over us; only through you do we make mention of your name.

• Isaiah 54:1

  “Shout for joy, barren one, who did not give birth; break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who did not have birth pains; for more are the children of the desolate one than the children of the married one,” says YHWH.

• Isaiah 54:5

  For your husband is your Maker, YHWH Tsevaot is his name, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; Elohim of all the earth he will be called.

• Isaiah 62:4

  You will no longer be called “Forsaken,” and your land will no longer be called “Desolation”; but you will be called “My Delight Is in Her,” and your land “Married”; for YHWH delights in you, and your land will be married.

• Isaiah 62:5

  For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you; and as the rejoicing of a bridegroom over a bride, so your Elohim will rejoice over you.

• Jeremiah 3:14

  Return, wayward children, declares YHWH, for I am your husband, and I will take you, one from a city and two from a clan, and I will bring you to Zion.

• Jeremiah 31:32

  not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares YHWH.

• Malachi 2:11

  Judah has betrayed, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned what is holy to YHWH, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

And 2 more times.