Beelzebub is Hebrew for what phrase, which is also the title of a famous novel?
Beelzebub "Beelzebub" is in , written "Ba‘al Zəbûb", referring to a deity worshipped by the Philistines. The title "Ba'al", meaning "Lord" in Ugaritic, was used in conjunction with a descriptive name of a specific god. Opinions differ on what the name means. In one understanding, "Ba‘al Zəbûb" is translated literally as "lord of the flies". It was long ago suggested that there was a relationship between the Philistine god, and cults of flies—referring to a view of them as pests, feasting on excrement—appearing in the Hellenic world, such as Zeus Apomyios or Myiagros. This is confirmed by the Ugaritic text which
Beelzebub slurred pronunciation of "zebûb"; from "zebel", a word used to mean "dung" in the Targums; or from Hebrew "zebûl" found in in the phrase "bêt-zebûl", "lofty house". In any case, the form "Beelzebub" was substituted for "Beelzeboul" in the Syriac translation and Latin Vulgate translation of the gospels, and this substitution was repeated in the King James Version of the Bible, the resulting form "Beelzeboul" being mostly unknown to Western European and descendant cultures until some more recent translations restored it. Beelzebub is also identified in the New Testament as the devil, "prince of the demons". Biblical scholar Thomas Kelly