Number of occurrences in NT: 1
Strong 896
Βάαλ (Rec. βαάλ), ὁ, ἡ, indecl. (Heb. בַּעַל, lord),
Baal: [Ro 11:4](LXX). The fem. art. here agrees with the usage of LXX, where, following a similar Hebrew practice (בֹּשֶׁת for בַּעַל), αἰσχύνη appears to have been substituted in reading for the written Βάαλ (cf. [III Ki 18:19]), and to account for the freq. use of the fem. art. bef. Β. The usage, however, is not general, and in the passage cited in Ro ([III Ki 19:18]), LXX reads τῷ Β.†