Bible Names

Ethbaal: meaning of the name

Ethbaal means “toward the idol, or with Baal.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ethbaal in Hebrew and Greek

אֶתְבַּעַל H856

ʼEthbaʻal (eth-bah'-al) — Ethbaal, a Phoenician king

from H854 (אֵת) and H1168 (בַּעַל); with Baal;

Who named Ethbaal in the Bible

Ethbaal in Scripture

“Ethbaal” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 1 Kings 16:31

    And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.