Phrases beginning with "sons of" are a common Semitic idiom, such as "sons of destruction" or "sons of lawlessness". In the Hebrew text, the phrase is either "sons of Belial" or simply "sons of worthlessness". The word occurs twenty-seven times in the Masoretic Text, in verses such as the Book of Proverbs ( Proverbs 6:12), where the King James Version (KJV) translates the Hebrew phrase adam beli-yaal as "a naughty person". Only a few etymologists have believed it to be an invented name from the start. Some scholars translate it from Hebrew as "worthless" ( Beli yo'il), while others translate it as "yokeless" ( Beli ol), "may he have no rising" or "never to rise" ( Beli ya'al). ![]() The etymology of the word is often understood as "lacking worth", from two common words: beli- (בְּלִי "without-") and ya'al (יָעַל "to be of value"). Hebrew Bible/Old Testament īelial is a Hebrew word "used to characterize the wicked or worthless". ![]() In the Secret Book of John, an early Gnostic text, the ruler of the underworld is referred to as Belias. Alternate spellings include Baalial, Balial, Belhor, Beliall, Beliar, Berial, Bylyl and Beliya'al. ( October 2021)Ī woodcut of Belial and some of his followers from a German edition of Jacobus de Teramo's book Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum (1473).īelial ( Hebrew: בְּלִיַּעַל, Bəlīyyaʿal) is a term occurring in the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament which later became personified as the devil in Christian texts of the New Testament. ![]() Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points.
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