bel , bāl ( בּל , bēl ): Appellative name of a Babylonian god (compare Baal ), in the Old Testament and Apocrypha identified with Marduk or Merodach, the tutelary deity of Babylon (compare Isaiah 46:1; Jeremiah 51:44; Baruch 6:41). See Babylonia And Assyria , The Religion Of .
