Need name for an Angel - anyone familiar with Hebrew or Ancient Hebrew?

[Dogbrain]

Ba'al would be Lord God actually... pronounced Bah El, not Ball.

No. "Ba'al" is the "namification" of the WORD that means "lord", "master", or "owner". It is NOT a compound of "*ba" and "El", as anyone who has knowledge of Hebrew and general semitic word roots could tell you. Ba'al is also not pronounced "bah el", as anyone who knows what a "glottal stop" is could tell you. It is pronounced /bA-?Al/ (to use Kirschenbaum notation).

The root for Ba'al is, of course, b'l, a two syllable root. This root is the ONLY root for the word "ba'al". It does not mean "lord god" in such use.

 

[Dogbrain]

There was also Adon and Jehovah

"Jehovah"? I'm quite certain that no ancient Semite ever heard of any "Jehovah". The word was invented by Western Europeans in the medieval era.

 

[Torm]

Dogbrain -

Teitan MAY have been using the name Jehovah out of deference to any possible Jewish members of the board - to whom the use of the actual NAME of that god is blaspheme except under very specific circumstances that a casual conversation of a message board does not meet. I won't use it here, either, except to tell you that it is usually expressed as four capital letters, or as a six letter name, both of which begin with 'Y'.

 

[shady]

Didn't see this random angel/demon name generator mentioned, so I thought it might be worth adding to the thread:
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/gens/adnamegen.php

 

[teitan]

No. "Ba'al" is the "namification" of the WORD that means "lord", "master", or "owner". It is NOT a compound of "*ba" and "El", as anyone who has knowledge of Hebrew and general semitic word roots could tell you. Ba'al is also not pronounced "bah el", as anyone who knows what a "glottal stop" is could tell you. It is pronounced /bA-?Al/ (to use Kirschenbaum notation).

The root for Ba'al is, of course, b'l, a two syllable root. This root is the ONLY root for the word "ba'al". It does not mean "lord god" in such use.

Partially my mistake... but I think that it is important in this sort of discussion to point out something... Be EL... Be El Beelzebub... Bah El Zeh Ball. How do you get Bah eL zeh ball to become Ball when the joke was a reference to the first portion of the Name, the name meaning Lord or Master as you say? Ball is a pronunciation that grew out of ignorance, much like the names Horus or Osiris which are more than likely pronounced Heru and Wasser or Asar but because Ball is a name used in Biblical scripture it has been allowed to stand.

Yes I said Jehovah in deference to typing HVHY for obvious reasons and NOT SO obvious reasons being A) avoid confusion for those who didn't understand what I typed and B) Most people understand the word JEHOVAH to mean... GOD maybe.

Jason

 

[Yair]

I am only really familiar with modern Hebrew, but I believe the language hasn't changed much.

Apparently I am too late.
I would like to note that in modern language Adon means Lord, and Adonai is My Lord, and that Baal was a reference for a Semitic deity (so there was Baal X where X is the name of a place/city/society). Jehova is a (corruotion of) the name God said Moses to call him, which is generally believed to signify the fact that he is atemporal, as the name defies time-categorization (being a mixture of past-present-future all at once). El, currently, just means "god" (no capitalization - any god will do...).
The bad guys are fallen angels, and have names with meanings such as "might of god" and so on - hence all end in "el", just like the "un-fallen" angels. E.g., an angel in charge of bringing trouble might be called "tzarotel" (the troubles of/fromg god; there probably isn't one) - all things come from god, the bad ones too.
The "non-el" names are often not of Hebrew origin. Well, mostly (Lilith, which isn't an angel but rather a mortal... the original wife of Adam, actually. And Satan, which just means "adversary". Etc.)

I would have suggested...
Zevahel - sacrifice to/of god
Sh(e)madel - destruction of god
Zaamel - anger of god
Haronel (or Charonel) - wrath of god (stronger wrath than zaam)
Elshadai - God of Wars, used in the bible to signify god in his wrathful aspect