A Hebrew "personal" name need not, in my opinion, be a word. I think
that the name BAAL is the composition BA-AL, where BA is 'be' ('come'
in the existential sense), and where AL is 'up', as in our EL and
ELOHIYM.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:53 AM, Philip Hardy wrote:
> The word BAAL is or any english word(s) that derived from the same
> Hebrew word that BAAL derived from, namley בעל, the original
> Hebrew almost always has "הבעל". This I believe is best conveyed
> or rendered in Enlish as "the owner", "the husband", "the master",
> or "the lord".
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