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bā-al-zē´fon בּעל צפון, ba‛al cephōn; Βεελσεπφῶν, Beelsepphō̇n; , ; ): The name means “Lord of the North,†and the place was opposite the Hebrew camp, which was between Migdol and the sea. It may have been the shrine of a Semitic deity, but the position is unknown (see EXODUS). Goodwin (see Brugsch, Hist. Egt., II, 363) found the name Baali-Zapuna as that of a god mentioned in an Egyptian papyrus in the British Museum.