BEL

bel, bal (bel): Appellative name of a Bah god (compare BAAL (1) ), in the Old Testament and Apocrypha identified with Marduk or Merodach, the tutelary deity of Babylon (compare Isaiah 46:1; Jeremiah 51:44; Baruch 6:41).

See BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA, RELIGION OF ,RELIGION OF .

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.