Lexical Summary Baal Gad: "Baal of fortune", a place near Mount Hermon Original Word: בַּעַל גָּדTransliteration: Baal Gad Phonetic Spelling: (bah'-al gawd) Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: "Baal of fortune", a place near Mount Hermon Meaning: Baal-gad -- "Baal of fortune", a place near Mount Hermon Strong's Concordance Baal-gad From Ba'al and gad; Baal of Fortune; Baal-Gad, a place in Syria -- Baal-gad. see HEBREW Ba'al see HEBREW gad Brown-Driver-Briggs H1171. Baal Gad גַּד בַּ֫עַל proper name, of a location Joshua 11:17; 12:7; 13:5 (D), where Baal was worshipped as Gad, god of fortune, a city in the בִּקְעָה of Lebanon, under Mt. Hermon; either modern Bâniâs, Greek Paneas, NT Caesarea Philippi, where a grotto of Pan took the place of the ancient worship of Gad, RobBR iii. 410 TristrTpg 271; or „âsbêyâ BdPal 297 Di; possibly = חרמון בעל compare Thes RobBR iii. 409. |
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