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Beelzebub
bee-EHL-zih-buhb
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A Canaanite deity worshipped at Ekron.
"But when the Phariſees heard it, they ſaid, This fellow doeth not caſt out deuils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the deuils."
— The Holy Bible (1611)
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Satan, the Devil.
"Mamma mia, let me go / Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me!"
— Freddie Mercury (1975)
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Etymology
First attested as Old English Belzebub, from Latin Beelzebūb, the Vulgate's form of Ancient Greek Βεελζεβούλ (Beelzeboúl), from Hebrew בעל זבוב (ba‘al-z'vúv, “fly-lord”), mentioned in 2 Kings chapter 1 as “the god of Ekron”.