בעל

בַּעַלm. (b. h.; preced.) 1) husband. Kidd.I, 1 and she becomes her own master בגט ובמיתת הב׳ through a letter of divorce or on the husbands death; a. v. fr. 2) the idol Baal. Y.Ab. Zar. III, 43a bot. ב׳ ראש גוייה הוהוכ׳ the Baal was the phallus and had the shape of a bean (read וכאפון). 3) (the fructifier, rain (v. Taan.6b; cmp. Is. 55:10). בֵּית בַּ׳ a field sufficiently watered by rain and requiring no artificial irrigation. Tosef.M. Kat. I, 1 שדה (בית) הב׳. B. Bath.III, 1. Tosef.Succ.II, 7 ערבה של ב׳ (sub. בית) a willow in a naturally watered field. Ib. Shebi. II, 4 בשל ב׳ (= בשדה של ב׳), opp. של שוקי. Num. R. s. 16 the Egyptian gods של שקר הם (read שקי) are gods of artificial drainage, but those of Canaan של ב׳ הם are gods of rain; (Tanḥ. Shlaḥ 13, through misunderstanding, שקר … בעליכח. 4) (mostly in compounds) owner of, master of, possessed of, given to ; e. g. ב׳ אבידה owner of a lost object; ב׳ אגדה master of Agadah, lecturer; ב׳ דין opponent in court; v. infra. Pes.86b ב׳ השם אני I am so named.Pl. בְּעָלִים, בְּעָלִין owners; mostly as sing. owner. B. Mets.VIII, 1; a. fr. Y.Dem.III, 23b bot. לבלעין, read לבעלין. Compounds: ב׳ מחשבות He who knows mans thoughts. Snh.19b.Ib. בעלי מ׳ those entertaining considerations (of fear), hesitating to do justice.ב׳ שיבה gray-haired. Ned.III, 8.ב׳ תשובה repentant sinner. Succ.53a; a. fr.ב׳ תשובות a man of many objections or excuses. Gen. R. s. 20 beg.(For other compounds, not self-evident, see the respective determinants.