Word of the Day – Beelzebub

Beelzebub (proper noun)

bee-el-zee-bub

A name for the Devil.

From late Latin Beëlzebub, translating Hebrew ba‘al zĕḇūḇ ‘lord of flies’, the name of a Philistine god (2 Kings 1:2), and Greek Beelzeboul ‘the Devil’ (Matt. 12:24).

Example sentences

“They feared Beelzebub himself may appear!”