Definition

{a master; hence, a husband,}

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H1167 (בַּעַל)

Word family

• בַּעַל baʻal

How the KJV renders it

• chancellor

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.