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A reference to a deity who was worshipped at that mountain peak and, biblically, was the subject of the heresy of Peor. The deity, worshipped by the Moabites, is biblically referred to as Baal-peor (Num. 25:3,5, 18) and as the "house of peor" (בית פעור) (Deuteronomy 3:29), generally meaning the Baal of Peor.
El (Hebrew: אל) became a generic term meaning "god", as opposed to the name of a worshipped deity, and epithets such as El Shaddai came to be applied to Yahweh alone, while Baal's nature as a storm and weather god became assimilated into Yahweh's own identification with the storm. [84]
Baal-Peor – master of Peor; master of the opening Baal-perazim – lord of divisions Baal-shalisha – the lord that presides over three; the third idol Baal-tamar – master of the palm-tree Baal-zebub – lord of the fly (satirical corruption of Ba'al-zebul - lord of princes) Baal-zephon – the lord/possession of the north/hidden/secret
Articles relating to Baal, a title and honorific meaning "owner," "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods. The title is particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad.
Idolatry with Baal-Peor (1970) by Phillip Medhurst Zimri and Kozbi portrayed as having sex in a regular tent when Phinehas kills them (1700) [note 4] Modern Tabernacle replica in the Timna Valley (2011) Scholars disagree about the exact motive Yahweh is claimed to have had in ordering Moses to wage the War against the Midianites.
According to Yehezkel Kaufmann, "Baal-berith and El-berith of Judges 9:4,46 is presumably YHWH", as "ba'al was an epithet of YHWH in earlier times". [ 4 ] Elsewhere, some of the Shechemites are called "men of Hamor"; [ 5 ] this is compared to "sons of Hamor", which in the ancient Middle East referred to people who had entered into a covenant ...
The name Elyon (עליון) occurs in combination with El, YHWH, Elohim and alone. It appears chiefly in poetic and later Biblical passages. The modern Hebrew adjective 'Elyon means 'supreme' (as in "Supreme Court": Hebrew: בית המשפט העליון) or 'Most High'. El Elyon has been
'Lord of Ṣafon'; Akkadian: Bēl Ḫazi (d IM ḪUR.SAG); Ugaritic: baʿlu ṣapāni; Hurrian: Tešub Ḫalbağe; [1] Egyptian: bꜥr ḏꜣpwnꜣ [2]), also transliterated as Baal-zephon, was an epithet of the Canaanite storm god Baʿal (lit. "Lord") in his role as lord of Jebel Aqra, called "Mount Zaphon" in antiquity.