Adonai is Baal
2 Samuel 5:20“So David went to Ba‘al-P’ratzim and defeated them there. He said, “Adonai has broken through my enemies for me like a river breaking through its banks.” This is why he called the place Ba‘al-P’ratzim [Lord of breaking through].” 1 Chronicles 14:11
“So they went up to Ba‘al-P’ratzim, and David defeated them there. David said, “God has broken through my enemies by my power like a river breaking through its banks.” This is why they called the place Ba‘al-P’ratzim [Lord of breaking through].”
Ba'al Basically Means Master
Hosea 2:18“On that day,” says Adonai “you will call me Ishi [My Husband]; you will no longer call me Ba‘ali [My Master].” How close is Ba'ali to Ba'alim and Baali to Baalim? It's awfully strange for a name such as Ba'al (Baal) to be so bad that the Israelites used the name of Baal in many places or perhaps even named the places themselves – which there's plenty of reason to know this is likely the case, that Baal was not such a bad name after all, even to the point that Adonai once used it because a form of the word Baal, Baali, carries the meaning of master.
