noun · masculine
beelzeboul
Strong’sG954
Beelzebul
stem beelzeboul-7 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Βεελζεβούλ (WH, App., 159, Rec., βεελζεβούλ), ὁ, indecl.
(Heb. בַּעַל, lord, and the Talmudic זִבּוּל, from זֶבֶל, dung (Dalman, Gr., 137n), or perh. זְבֻל, habitation, but, v. DB, iv, 409 f.; DCG, i, 181). The AV, RV, Beelzebub, comes through Vg. from IV Ki 1:2, בַּעַל זִבוּב, lord of flies (LXX, βάαλ μυῖα, Sm., βεελζεβούβ),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G954 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbeh-el-zeb-ool'
dung-god; Beelzebul, a name of Satan
Fromof Chaldee origin (by parody on );
King JamesBeelzebub.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Beelzebul, Beelzebub, a name of Satan:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | beelzeboul | beelzeboul |
| object accusative | beelzeboul2×Βεελζεβοὺλ | beelzeboul |
| direct address vocative | beelzeboul | beelzeboul |
| of, belonging to genitive | beelzeboul | beelzeboul |
| to, for dative | beelzeboul5×Βεελζεβοὺλ | beelzeboul |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
beelzeboul“Beelzebul”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 10:25… tos kurios autou. ei ton oikodespoton Beelzeboul epikalala, pose mallon toin oikiakoin autou.… of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of …
Mark 3:22… tois apo Hierosolumeiu katabainarantois legale hoti Beelzeboul echatō kai hoti en to archonto …… were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the …
beelzeboul“Beelzebul”to, fordative singular5×
Matthew 12:24… teim daimoneim ei mē en to Beelzeboul archonto teiu daimoneiu.… heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this …
Matthew 12:27kai ei mis en Beelzeboul ekbalamō teim daimoneim, tois huiois vu …… if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive …
Luke 11:15tinois de ek autoiu legala; En Beelzeboul to archonto teiu daimoneiu ekbalatō teim …… of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that …
Luke 11:18… tas basileias autou? hoti legavō en Beelzeboul ekbalarō min teim daimoneim.… that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.
Luke 11:19ei de mis en Beelzeboul ekbalamō teim daimoneim, tois huiois vu …… if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive …