Baal, baalah, baalath

1. Baalah (1 ( li IS", Jo.s l.V-'- '"), a name for Kiriath- jcuiim. 2. Baalah Mount (Jos 1.")"), the ridge which runs west from Ekron to .labneel. 3. Baalah (,Jo3 15'-='), a city in the extreme south of .ludaii, prob. the same lis Balah, Jo.s l!J^ ( = liilliah, 1 Cli 4^) and Bealoth, .Jos IS'", i. Baalath (.Jtjs I'J"), a town of Dan. The site is uncertain. 5. Baalath (1 K 9"=2 Ch 8') : the town is noticed witli Tadmor, but also in the second pass.age witli Betli-lioron. The site Ls uncertain. It miglit be No. 4. 6. Baalath- beer (Jos 19' ; Baal, 1 Ch 4*"). This seems to have been perhaps the same as Kamah of the Negeb, according to the first passage. Evidently a hill in the Tih plateau, S. or S.E. of Beersheba. A con- spicuous object in this part of the desert is the white dome of the small shrine called Kubbet el Baul, which may retain the name, S. of Tell el Milh. C. K. CONUER. BAAL-BERITH(n-i?H';= 'lord of the covenant'), the god of Shechem, where he had a temple, Jg 8'' 9' ; also called El-berith, Jg 9". The name may mean the god who presides over covenants, cf. Zed OpKioi ; or the god of the Can. league which centred at Shechem ; or the god of the covenant between Canaanilcs and Israelites, cf. Gn 34. G. A. Cooke.