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!”
