a rejoicing; a proud lord
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
BAALIS.King of Ammon in time of Gedaliah (Jer_40:14).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
King of the children of Ammon, at the time of Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Jerusalem. He hired Ishmael to slay Gedaliah, who was appointed by the king of Babylon governor over the cities of Judah (Jer_40:14).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ba'alis. King of the Ammonites at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. Jer_40:14. (B.C. 588).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
bā?a-liṣ בּעליס, ba‛lı̄ṣ, perhaps for Baalim, ?gods?; Septuagint Βελεισά, Beleisá, Βελισά, Belisá, Βααλίς, Baalı́s; Ant, X, ix, 3, Βαάλιμος, Baálimoš: King of the children of Ammon, the instigator of the murder of Gedaliah (Jer_40:14). Compare Ant, X, ix, 3.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Baalis
(Hebrews Baalis', בִּעֲלַיס, prob. for בֶּןאּעֲלַיס, son of exultation; Sept. Βελισά v. r. Βελεισσά, and even Βασίλισσα; Vulg. Baalis), king of the Ammonites about the time of the Babylonian captivity, whom Johanan and his fellow-generals reported to Gedaliah, the viceroy, as having sent Ishmael to assassinate him (Jeremiah xl, 14). B.C. 587. Some MSS. have Baalim (בִּעֲלַים), and so Josephus (Βααλείμ, Ant. 10:9, 3).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.