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title: אֶתְבַּעַל — Ethbaal · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶתְבַּעַל (856), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ethbaal. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. Ethbaal. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶתְבַּעַל

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«אֶתְבַּעַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ethbaal** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 856 · **BDB:** אֶתְבַּ֫עַל

### Glosses

of.Ethbaal (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ethbaal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/856/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. Ethbaal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/856/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Ethbaal (with Baal, i.e. living under B.’s favour; Ἰθόβαλος, Εἰθώβαλος JosAnt. viii, 13, 1, viii, 13, 2, c. Ap. 1, 18; on later king of like name, in Assyrian Tubaʾlu, v. COT Gn 10:15) king of Sidon, father of Jezebel 1 K 16:31.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֶתְבַּעַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/856/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 16:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.31/)

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וַיְהִי֙ הֲנָקֵ֣ל לֶכְתּ֔וֹ בְּחַטֹּ֖אות יָרָבְעָ֣ם בֶּן־נְבָ֑ט וַיִּקַּ֨ח אִשָּׁ֜ה אֶת־אִיזֶ֗בֶל בַּת־אֶתְבַּ֙עַל֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ צִידֹנִ֔ים וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֣ד אֶת־הַבַּ֔עַל וַיִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was was it.trifling? he to.walk in the.sins of.Jeroboam the.son of.Nebat and he.took a.wife (et) Jezebel the.daughter of.Ethbaal the.king of.\[the\].Sidonians and he.went and he.served (et) (the) Baal and he.bowed.down to it

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

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