Baal

(bā'al.) [Heb., lord or commander.] A Phœnician and Syrian god, worshipped chiefly at Tyre; supposed to be the same as the Bel or Belus of the Greeks. The system of Baal-worship was an adoration of a supreme being under the mere attribute of power. Among other sacrifices human victims were sometimes offered up on his altars. [s. 66]