Quran glossary · draft

بَعْلًا

Baal

The named deity invoked by Elijah's people in contrast with Allah.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: بعل

Lemmas: بعل

Forms: بَعْلًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

37:125

أَتَدْعُونَ بَعْلًا وَتَذَرُونَ أَحْسَنَ ٱلْخَٰلِقِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered all seven occurrences. Six common-noun targets identify husbands in marital, reconciliation, kinship, and modesty contexts. The proper-name target at 37:125 is an exact-segment lexical collision: Baal is invoked as a deity and contrasted with the best of creators, a referential role incompatible with the spousal core. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited.