What is the meaning of the word Beelzebub (or Beelzebul)?
The name Beelzebub is used to refer to Satan (the devil) in the New Testament. Scribes, for instance, accuse Jesus of driving out demons with the power of Beelzebub in Mark 3. Jesus also uses the term in Matthew and Luke’s version of the same story.
If Beelzebub is a name for Satan, then what does it say about him?
The first part of the name is derived from the Philistine god Ba’al, a false idol that many of God’s people worshiped instead of the Lord.
Ba’al was a title meaning “Lord.”
The second half of the word, zebub/zebul/zevuv, is often translated as “flies.”
Therefore, Beelzebub means “Lord of the Flies.”
(This, by the way, is the inspiration for the title of William Golding’s book, The Lord of the Flies.)
Other scholars have suggested that the word might mean “Lord of the High Place” or “Lord of the Dung”
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