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Bel

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

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

See BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA, RELIGION OF.

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