Baalim: meaning of the name

Baalim in Hebrew and Greek

Baalim in Scripture

“Baalim” appears in 18 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Judges 2:11

  And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:

• Judges 3:7

  And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

• Judges 8:33

  And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal–berith their god.

• Judges 10:6

  And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord, and served not him.

• Judges 10:10

  And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

• 1 Samuel 7:4

  Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only.

• 1 Samuel 12:10

  And they cried unto the Lord, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.

• 1 Kings 18:18

  And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.