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bel, bāl (בּל, bēl): Appellative name of a Babylonian god (compare BAAL), in the Old Testament and Apocrypha identified with Marduk or Merodach, the tutelary deity of Babylon (compare ; ; Baruch 6:41). See BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA, THE RELIGION OF.