Βάαλ (so accented also by Pape (Eigenn. under the word), Kuenen and Cobet (Rom. as below); but L T (yet the name of the month, 1Ki_6:5 (38), Βάαλ) Tr WH etc. Βάαλ; so Etym. Magn. 194, 19; Suidas 1746 a. etc. Dindorf in Stephanus' Thesaurus, under the word Βάαλ or Βάαλ), ὁ, ἡ, an indeclinable noun (Hebrew αΗΜςΗμ, Chaldean αΜμ contracted from αΐΜςΕμ), lord: Rom_11:4. This was the name of the supreme heavenly divinity worshipped by the Shemitic nations (the Phoenicians, Canaanites, Babylonians, Assyrians), often also by the Israelites themselves, and represented by the Sun: τῇ Βάαλ, Rom_11:4. Cf. Winers RWB (and BB. DD.) under the word and J. G. Müller in Herzog i., p. 637ff; Merx in Schenkel i., 322ff; Schlottmann in Riehm, p. 126f. Since in this form the supreme power of nature generating all things, and consequently a male deity, was worshipped, with which the female deity Astarte was associated, it is hard to explain why the Sept. in some places say ὁ Βάαλ (Num_22:41; Jdg_2:13; 1Ki_16:1; 1Ki_19:18, etc.), in others ἡ Βάαλ (Hos_2:8; 1Sa_7:4, etc. (yet see Dillmann, as below, p. 617)). Among the various conjectures on tiffs subject the easiest is this: that the Sept. called the deity ἡ Βάαλ in derision, as weak and impotent, just as the Arabs call idols goddesses and the rabbis ΰΑμΙδεϊ; so Gesenius in Rosenmüller's Repert. i., p. 139 and Tholuck on Romans, the passage cited; (yet cf. Dillmann, as below, p. 602; for other opinions and references see Meyer at the passage; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 27, 6 N. 1. But Prof. Dillmann shows (in the Monatsbericht d. Akad. zu Berlin, 16 Juni 1881, p. 601ff), that the Jews (just as they abstained from pronouncing the word Jehovah) avoided uttering the abhorred name of Βάαλ (Exo_23:13). As a substitute in Aramaic they read θςεϊ, γημΰ or τϊλψΰ, and in Greek αἰσχύνη (cf. 1Ki_18:19; 1Ki_18:25). This substitute in Greek was suggested by the use of the feminine article. Hence, we find in the Sept., ἡ Βάαλ everywhere in the prophetic books Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Hosea, etc., while in the Pentateuch it does not prevail, nor even in Judges, Samuel, Kings (except 1Sa_7:4; 2Ki_21:3). It disappears, too (when the worship of Baal had died out) in the later versions of Aq., Symm., etc. The apostle's use in Romans, the passage cited accords with the sacred custom; cf. the substitution of the Hebrew αΙΜωΖΡϊ in Ish-bosheth, Mephi-bosheth, etc. 2Sa_2:8; 2Sa_2:10; 2Sa_4:4 with 1Ch_8:33-34, also 2Sa_11:21 with Jdg_6:32; etc.)

Βάαλ Baal 1x Baal, (Hebrew for Master) pr. name, indecl., Rom_11:4

Βάαλ ( Rec. Βαάλ ), ὁ , ἡ , indecl . ( Heb . H1168 , lord), Baal: Rom_11:4 (LXX) , The fem, art, here agrees with the usage of LXX , where, following a similar Hebrew practice ( H1322 for H1168 ), αἰσχύνη appears to have been substituted in reading for the written Βάαλ ( cf. 1Ki_18:19 ), and to account for the freq . use of the fem, art. bef. B . The usage, however, is not general, and in the passage cited in Ro ( 1Ki_19:18 ), LXX reads τῷ B .†

Βάαλ [page 101] Τῇ Βάαλ in Rom_11:4 is paralleled in LXX four times outside Prophets and Apocrypha, where it is feminine without variant : correct thus the note in Proleg. .3 , p. 59, where see also a reference to the usual explanation (Dillmann s).

Βάαλ (Rec. βαάλ), ὁ, ἡ, indecl. (Heb. בַּעַל, lord), Baal: Rom.11:4 (LXX). The fem. art. here agrees with the usage of LXX, where, following a similar Hebrew practice (בֹּשֶׁת for בַּעַל), αἰσχύνη appears to have been substituted in reading for the written Βάαλ (cf. 3Ki.18:19), and to account for the frequently use of the fem. art. bef. Β. The usage, however, is not general, and in the passage cited in Ro (3Ki.19:18), LXX reads τῷ Β. † (AS)