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Other Dictionaries
- Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. II: Basilica - Chambers
- New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge [Dictionary edition]
- Smith's Bible Dictionary
- Easton's Bible Dictionary
- Nave's Topical Bible.
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
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Belial
Worthlessness, frequently used in the Old Testament as a proper name. It is first used in Deut. 13:13. In the New Testament it is found only in 2 Cor. 6:15, where it is used as a name of Satan, the personification of all that is evil. It is translated “wicked” in Deut. 15:9; Ps. 41:8 (R.V. marg.); 101:3; Prov. 6:12, etc. The expression “son” or “man of Belial” means simply a worthless, lawless person (Judg. 19:22; 20:13; 1 Sam. 1:16; 2:12).
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