Belial

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See also: Bélial

English

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Etymology

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Latin Bĕlĭal, from Hebrew בְלִיַּעַל. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What is etymological meaning?”) Of uncertain origin. It has been conventionally been interpreted as בְּלִי (without) + ya'al "use". Therefore worthless or without purpose or value. Another proposal is: From Hebrew: verb Bala "to wear out". Implications of degradation, decay.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbiːli.əl/, /ˈbiːl.jəl/, (spelling pronunciation) /bəˈlaɪ.əl/

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Belial

  1. (mythology) A wicked demon in Christian and Jewish apocrypha.
    • 2016 February 24, Nancy Rosenfeld, The Human Satan in Seventeenth-Century English Literature: From Milton to Rochester, Routledge, →ISBN, page 93:
      Here, too, the poet calls attention to Belial's role as one who blurs the borderline between essence and appearance: Belial himself seems fair (physically attractive), but is empty inside, and Milton was surely aware that in Hebrew the first syllable of the fallen angel's name means without.

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