Dict: smith - BEL

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BEL - B>@ - BAAL

BELA - B>@ - (destruction). One of the five cities of the plain which was spared at the intercession of Lot, and received the name of Zoar, kjv@Genesis:14:2 kjv@Genesis:19:22) ZOAR Son of Beor, who reigned over Edom in the city of Dinhabah, eight generations before Saul. kjv@Genesis:36:31-33; kjv@1Chronicles:1:43-44) Eldest son of Benjamin, according to kjv@Genesis:46:21) (Authorized Version "Belah"); kjv@Numbers:26:38-40; kjv@1Chronicles:7:6 kjv@1Chronicles:8:1) and head of the family of the Belaites. Son of Ahaz, a Reubenite. ( kjv@1Chronicles:5:8)

BELAH - B>@ - BELA, 3

BELAITES, THE - B>@ - kjv@Numbers:26:38) BELA, 3

BELIAL - B>@ - The meaning of this word as found in the Scriptures is worthlessness , and hence reckless, lawlessness. The expression son or man of Belial must be understood as meaning simply a worthless, lawless fellow. The term as used in ( kjv@2Corinthians:6:15) is generally understood as an appellative of Satan, as the personification of all that was bad.

BELLOWS - B>@ - The word occurs only in kjv@Jeremiah:6:29) where it denotes an instrument to heat a smelting furnace. Wilkinson in "Ancient Egypt," kjv@3:338, says, "They consisted of a leather, secured and fitted into a frame, from which a long pipe extended for carrying the wind to the fire. They were worked by the feet, the operator standing upon them, with one under each foot, and pressing them alternately, while he pulled up each exhausted skin with a string he held in his hand."

BELLS - B>@ - In kjv@Exodus:28:33) the bells alluded to were the golden ones 72 in number, round the hem of the his priest’s ephod. The object of them was so that his sound might be heard." kjv@Exodus:28:34) Ecclus. 45:9. To this day bells are frequently attached, for the sake of their pleasant sound, to the anklets of women. The little girls of Cairo wear strings of them around their feet. In kjv@Zechariah:14:20) "bells of the horses" were concave or flat pieces of brass, which were sometimes attached to horses for the sake of ornament.

BELSHAZZAR - B>@ - (prince of Bel), the last king of Babylon. In kjv@Daniel:5:2) Nebuchadnezzar is called the father of Belshazzar. This, of course, need only mean grandfather or ancestor. According to the well-known narrative Belshazzar gave a splendid feast in his palace during the siege of Babylon (B.C. 538), using the sacred vessels of the temple, which Nebuchadnezzer had brought from Jerusalem. The miraculous appearance of the handwriting on the wall, the calling in of Daniel to interpret its meaning the prophecy of the overthrow of the kingdom, and Belshazsar’s death, accorded in kjv@Daniel:5.

BELTESHAZZAR - B>@ - (favored by Bel .) DANIEL, DANIEL, THE BOOK OF