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Bealiah meaning

Bealiah in Biblical Hebrew
בעליה
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🔼The name Bealiah: Summary

Meaning
Yah Is Lord
Etymology
From (1) the verb בעל (ba'al), to be lord, and (2) יה (yah), the name of the Lord.
Related names
• Via בעל (ba'al): Ashbel, Baal, Baalah, Baalath, Baalath-beer, Baal-berith, Baale-judah, Baal-gad, Baal-hamon, Baal-hanan, Baal-hazor, Baal-hermon, Baali, Baalis, Baal-meon, Baal-peor, Baal-perazim, Baal-shalishah, Baal-tamar, Baal-zebub, Baal-zephon, Baladan, Bamoth-baal, Bealoth, Beelzebub, Bel, Beulah, Bildad, Eshbaal, Ethbaal, Gur-baal, Hannibal, Jerubbaal, Kiriath-baal, Merib-baal
• Via יה (yah): See the 'browse by form' menu for a long list of yah-names.

🔼The name Bealiah in the Bible

The only Bealiah mentioned in the Bible is one of the valiant men of war who join David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:5). Whatever became of Bealiah is not known, as he isn't heard from in other Scriptures.

🔼Etymology of the name Bealiah

The name Bealiah consists of two common elements. The first part is identical to the name Baal, and that name comes from the common Hebrew verb בעל (ba'al), meaning to rule or possess:

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
בעל

The verb בעל (ba'al) means to exercise dominion over; to own, control or be lord over. The ubiquitous noun בעל (ba'al) means lord, master and even husband, and its feminine counterpart בעלה (ba'ala) means mistress or landlady.

God is obviously called 'lord' all over the Bible and the sin of the Baal priests (1 Kings 18:40) was not that they called upon some other deity but rather their incessant howling of the word 'lord' without any further responsibility or effects (see Matthew 7:21 and 11:4-5).

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The second part of the name Bealiah is יה (Yah) = יהו (Yahu) = יו (Yu), which in turn are abbreviated forms of the Tetragrammaton; the name of the Lord: YHWH.

🔼Bealiah meaning

For a meaning of the name Bealiah, NOBSE Study Bible Name List reads Yahweh Is Lord and BDB Theological Dictionary proposes the similar Yah Is Lord. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names goes with a more literal interpretation and reads Possession Of The Lord.