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BAAL, BAALAH, BAALATH.—1. = Kiriath-jearim (1Ch_13:6, Jos_15:9-10). 2. Baalath-beer (Jos_19:8, 1Ch_4:33 [Baal]), a site in the Negeb. 3. A city in the S. of Judah (Jos_15:29; Jos_19:3, 1Ch_4:29). 4. Mount Baalab, between Ekron and Jabneel (Jos_15:11), possibly, as M. Clermont-Gannean has suggested, the river (not mountain) of Baal (now Nahr Rubin). 5. An unknown town of Dan (Jos_19:44). 6. An unknown town (1Ki_9:18 = 2Ch_8:6).
E. W. G. Masterman.