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GreekG0954Noun (Technical/Title)

Βεελζεβούλ

Beelzeboul

7Occurrences
G0954Strong's #
Noun (Technical/Title)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

dung-god; Beelzebul, a name of Satan

of Chaldee origin (by parody on H01176);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
ὁ, indecl. (Heb. בַּעַל, lord, and the Talmudic זִבּוּל, from זֶבֶל, dung (Dalman, Gr., 137.n), or perh. זִבֻל, habitation, but, see DB, iv, 409f.; DCG, i, 181). The AV, RV, Beelzebub, comes through Vg. from 4, בַּעַל זִבוּב, lord of flies (LXX, βάαλ μυῖα, Sm., βεελζεβούβ), Beelzebul, Beelzebub, a name of Satan: 19.

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Technical/Title)

Morphology Code

N:N--T

Full Description

Proper Noun, Technical/Title

Occurrences

Βεελζεβούλ appears 7 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Luke
3
Matthew
3
Mark
1

Key Passages

Luke 11:15BSB

but some of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that He drives out demons.”

Luke 11:18BSB

If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? After all, you say that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

Luke 11:19BSB

And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.

Matthew 10:25BSB

It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!

Matthew 12:24BSB

But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.