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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 Isaiah 46:1; Jeremiah 51:44; Baruch 6:41).
See BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA, RELIGION OF.
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