The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . beh-kah, cleft), half a shekel. See Weights and Measures. BEL (bel), (Heb. 3, bale, contracted from ??. be-el, the Aramaic form of 2?2, ba-al), is the nameunder which the national god of the Babyloniansis cursorily mentioned in Is. xlviu; Jer. 1:2; li 144. The only passages in the Apocrypha whichcontain any further notice of this deity are :40, and the apocryphal addition to the b
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . beh-kah, cleft), half a shekel. See Weights and Measures. BEL (bel), (Heb. 3, bale, contracted from ??. be-el, the Aramaic form of 2?2, ba-al), is the nameunder which the national god of the Babyloniansis cursorily mentioned in Is. xlviu; Jer. 1:2; li 144. The only passages in the Apocrypha whichcontain any further notice of this deity are :40, and the apocryphal addition to the book ofDaniel, in the Septuagint, xiv:i, sq., where weread of meat and drink being daily offered tohim, according to a usage occurring in classicalidolatry. A particular account of the pyramidal templeof Bel, at Babylon, is given by Herodotus, i:i8l-183. It is there also stated that the sacrifices ofthis god consisted of adult cattle, probata, oftheir young, when sucking (which last class werethe only victims offered up on the golden altar),and of incense. The question whether the sun or the planetJupiter was the power of nature adored underthe name of Bel is discussed under the articleBaal (which see).. From an Engraving on a Babylonian Cylinder, Representingthe Sun God and One of His Priests. BEL and DRAGON (bel and dragun). SeeDaniel, Apocryphal Additions to. BELA (bela), (Heb. ^3, behlah, swallowed, ordestruction). 1. (See Zoar; Gen. xiv:2, 8). 2. Son of Beor, who reigned over Edom (B. ), in the city Dinhabah, eight generationsbefore Saul (Gen. xxxvi:32, 33; 1 Chron. i:43). 3. Son of Azaz, a Reubenite (1 Chron. v:8). 4. Eldest son of Benjamin (Gen. xlvi:21; :38; 1 Chron. vii:6; viii:i), and head of thefamily of Belaites, of whom Ehud is the mostremarkable ( 1700). BELAH (be-la),a less correct mode of Angliciz-ing (Gen. xlvi:2i) the name Bela, the son of Ben-jamin. (See Bela 4). BELAITE (bela-ite), (Heb. **7^-. with the art.,ha-bal-ee, Num. xxvi:38). „ BE
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