Baal (disambiguation)
Appearance
Baal is a Semitic term for "Lord" or "owner".
Baal may also refer to:
Deities
- Baal (demon), a Christian demon, loosely identified with the Canaanite god
- Baal Peor, a Canaanite deity
- Belphegor ("Lord of the Gap"), a demon in Christian demonology
- Baal-Berith and El-Berith, gods of a Canaanite city
- Baal-berith ("Lord of the Covenant"), a god, viewed as demon in Christian demonology
- Beelzebub (Baalzebul, "Lord of the manor"; Baalzebub, Beelzebuth, "Lord of the (heavenly) dwelling" or "Lord of the Flies"), identified with the Devil
- Hadad, a Canaanite deity commonly known as Baal or Ba'lu
Places
- Baal, Germany, a village in the municipality of Hückelhoven
- Baal, Belgium, a village in the municipality of Tremelo
- Baal, Netherlands, a hamlet in the Dutch province Gelderland
People
- Baal I, an ancient king of Tyre
- Baal Shem Tov or Besht, a Jewish mystical rabbi
- Baal HaTanya or Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812), an Orthodox Rabbi
- Adam Muraszko (born Adam Potyka, stage name Baal), a Czech/Polish heavy metal musician
In fiction, drama, etc.
- Baal (play), a 1918 play by Bertolt Brecht
- Baal (film), a 1970 German TV film, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and based on the play
- Baal (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Ba'al (Stargate), a fictional character in Stargate SG-1
- Ba'al, a character in Vampireology: The True History of the Fallen
- Ba'al, demon possessing, 2011 movie "The Rite" (Anthony Hopkins)
- Baal, a 1988 horror novel by Robert McCammon
Music
- Baal (EP), a 1981 EP by David Bowie, featuring incidental music written for Brecht's play
- Baal: Book of Angels Volume 15, a 2010 album by the Ben Goldberg Quartet composed by John Zorn
- Baal (band), a Danish rock band
- BAAL (Serbian band), a Serbian gothic rock band
In games
- Bhaal, a fictional deity in the Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms novels and games
- Baal (video game), a 1988 computer game for the Amiga
- Baal, a fictional planet in the Warhammer 40,000 series
- General Baal, antagonist character of the video game Grandia
- Baal, legendary Overlord in the Disgaea series of games
Other uses
- British Association for Applied Linguistics, a UK society for applied linguists
- Baal teshuva movement, worldwide movement among the Jewish people