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בְּעֵל

be.el

commander

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Strong’s H1169Noun, masculine3 times in the Aramaic of the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

lord of3

In the text

Ezra 4:8בְּעֵל
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בְּעֵל n.m. owner, lord

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.