Beings

The title given to one of the chief angels (Dan. 10:13, 21; 12:1). He had special charge of Israel as a nation.

Champion of God, used as a proper name to designate the angel who was sent to Daniel (8:16) to explain the vision of…

Adversary; accuser. When used as a proper name, the Hebrew word so rendered has the article “the adversary” (Job…

Fly-lord, the god of the Philistines at Ekron (2 Kings 1:2, 3, 16). This name was given to the god because he was…

Destruction, the Hebrew name (equivalent to the Greek Apollyon, i.e., destroyer) of “the angel of the bottomless pit”…

The name appropriated to the principal male god of the Phoenicians. It is found in several places in the plural BAALIM…

The destroyer, subduer, or fish-god, the god of the Moabites (Num. 21:29; Jer. 48:7, 13, 46). The worship of this god…

King, the name of the national god of the Ammonites, to whom children were sacrificed by fire. He was the consuming and…

Little fish; diminutive from dag = a fish, the fish-god; the national god of the Philistines (Judg. 16:23). This idol…

So called by the Romans; called Artemis by the Greeks, the “great” goddess worshipped among heathen nations under…

The moon goddess of the Phoenicians, representing the passive principle in nature, their principal female deity…

Mentioned in 3 verses, first in 1 Kings 11:5.

An idol; a form of the sun-god worshipped by the inhabitants of Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:31), and brought by the…

One of the gods worshipped by the people of Sepharvaim, who colonized Samaria (2 Kings 17:31). The name means “Anu is…