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Baal-zebub

Baal-zebub [Heb.,=lord of flies], a deliberate Hebrew distortion of the name of the god of Ekron in 2 Kings. In the Gospels of Mark and Luke, Beelzebul, the Greek form of the epithet Baal-zebul [Baal the Prince], is encountered. See Baal and Satan .

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Beelzebub

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Beelzebub. A name equivalent to Satan found in the gospels (Mark 3. 22–6 and par.). The Gk. text is Beelzeboul, which may correspond to Heb. Baal-zebel, ‘lord of filth’. The English form -bub is due to the influence of Baal-zebub (‘lord of flies’) in 2 Kings 1. 2.

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Carta a José Emilio Pacheco sobre un versículo intruso de Borges.(Jorge Luis Borge, poeta)(TT: Letter to José Emilio Pacheco about an intrusive verse by Borge.)(TA: Jorge Luis Borge, poet)
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