Meaning of Baalish | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to Baal, Baalism, or the people who worshiped Baal.

Examples

“So in the height of the degeneracy and apostasy of the Israelitish church, there were seven thousand who kept themselves pure from Baalish idolatry, of whom none were known to Elijah.”

“Oft would he cry, when treasure he surpris'd, 'Tis Baalish gold in David's coin disguis'd.”

“The priests, who are possessed of awful lungs, made the chapel resound with their Baalish howlings, as they recited the litany for the dead.”

“Yet , during their Babylonian captivity , it is quite possible that Baalish symbolic thinking gave the defeated Jews the needed hope to survive as a people .”

“There is also the theory that Jezreel was a Baalish name and thus a proclamation of Israel's apostasy.”

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