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Belial|ˈbiːlɪəl|
Also 6 Belyall.
[a. Heb. b'li-yaﻋal, f. b'li not, without + yaﻋal use, profit; hence lit. ‘worthlessness,’ and ‘destruction’; but in later use and in the N.T. treated as a proper name = ὁ πονηρός, the evil one, Satan. In the Eng. transl. it is retained untranslated in the phrase ‘sons of Belial’ and the like, as it is generally also in the Vulgate, though in 1 Kings xxi. 13 it is rendered filii diaboli, as in mediæval use.]
1. The spirit of evil personified; used from early times as a name for the Devil or one of the fiends, and by Milton as the name of one of the fallen angels. Also attrib.
c1225Juliana 38 Ich am þe deouel belial, deoflene wurest, ant mest is awariet. Ibid. 16 Ȝe beliales budeles. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 319 And with þat breth helle brake with Beliales barres. c1384Wyclif De Eccl. Sel. Wks. III. 339 Christ comouneþ not wiþ Belial. 1572Forrest Theoph. 416 This Belyall bill written with his bloode. 1663Bk. Com. Prayer, Chas. Mart., In permitting cruel men, sons of Belial, (as on this day) to imbrue their hands in the blood of thine Anointed. 1667Milton P.L. i. 490 Belial came last, then whom a Spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven. 1822Scott Monast. xxxiv, A scoffer, a debauched person, and, in brief, a man of Belial. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 108 note, Belial is not originally a proper name..this is why there was no worship of Belial.
Hence Beliˈalic a., ˈBelialist.
1631G. Webbe Quietn. (1657) 145 The most unquiet Belialist in his parish. 1656Trapp Comm. Matt. xi. 29 Christians must not be yokeless..Belialists. 1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 464 Belialic qualities I could not have expected to find in him. |