Belial
See also: Bélial
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Latin Bĕlĭal, from Hebrew בְלִיַּעַל. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What is etymological meaning?”)
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Belial
- (mythology) A wicked demon in Christian and Jewish apocrypha.
- 2016 February 24, Nancy Rosenfeld, The Human Satan in Seventeenth-Century English Literature: From Milton to Rochester, Routledge, →ISBN, page 93:
- Here, too, the poet calls attention to Belial's role as one who blurs the borderline between essence and appearance: Belial himself seems fair (physically attractive), but is empty inside, and Milton was surely aware that in Hebrew the first syllable of the fallen angel's name means without.
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a wicked demon in Christian and Jewish apocrypha