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bel´ōz, bel´us: The word occurs once only in English Versions of the Bible, in , where the prophet is predicting the coming of the destroyer (), “a great nation†from “the north country†(), down upon Israel, because “all of them deal corruptly†(). “The bellows blow fiercely; the leads is of the fire.†Here the imagery is drawn from the refiner's art, and the “bellows†are those used to make the refiner's fires burn fiercely. See CRAFTS, II, 10.