King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1100
Transliteration: beliyyaal
Phonetic Spelling: (bel-e-yah'-al)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: worthlessness
Meaning: without profit, worthlessness, destruction, wickedness
Word Summary
beliyyaal: worthlessness
Original Word: בְּלִיַּעַלTransliteration: beliyyaal
Phonetic Spelling: (bel-e-yah'-al)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: worthlessness
Meaning: without profit, worthlessness, destruction, wickedness
Strong's Concordance
Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly men, wicked From bliy and ya'al; without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness (often in connection with 'iysh, 'ishshah, ben, etc.) -- Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked.
see HEBREW bliy
see HEBREW ya'al
see HEBREW 'iysh
see HEBREW 'ishshah
see HEBREW ben
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1100. beliyyaal
בְּלִיַּ֫עַל27 noun [masculine] worthlessness (compound בְּלִי not, without and יַעַל worth, use, profit) — ׳בּ Deuteronomy 13:14 20t.; בְּלִיָּ֑עַל Psalm 101:3 5t.; — the quality of being useless, good for nothing.
1 abstract הבליעל אַנְשֵׁי (ה)בליעל, אִישׁ, worthless, good-for-nothing, base fellows 1 Samuel 25:25; 2 Samuel 16:7; 20:1; 1 Kings 21:13; Proverbs 16:27; = ׳בֶּןבֿ 1 Samuel 25:17, ב ׳בְּנֵי Deuteronomy 13:14; Judges 19:22; 20:13; 1 Samuel 2:12; 10:27; 1 Kings 21:10, 13; 2 Chronicles 13:7; ב ׳בַּת 1 Samuel 1:16 (drunken woman); ב ׳עֵד base witness Proverbs 19:28; ב ׳דְּבַר base, wicked thing Psalm 41:9 (yet compare 3 below), 101:3 (add probably also 1 Samuel 29:10, so ᵐ5 We Dr); ׳דָּבָרב֗֗֗ (elliptical and in apposition) Deuteronomy 15:9.
2 concrete elliptical of ב ׳אישׁ 2 Samuel 23:6; Job 34:18; וּבְלִיַּעַל רַע כָּלאִֿישׁ 1 Samuel 30:22; בְּלִיַּעַל אָדָם Proverbs 6:12.
3 ruin, destruction: so Psalm 41:9 according to De Che and others, but see above; ב ׳יֹעֵץ counsellor of ruin Nahum 1:11; ׳ב alone a man of ruin, destroyer 2:1; ב ׳נַחֲלֵי floods of destruction ("" שְׁאוֺל) 2 Samuel 22:5 = Psalm 18:5.