Bronze figurine of a Baal, 14th to 12th century BCE

14th Century BCE BAAL God of fertility,weather,rain,wind,lightning,seasons,war,sailors

Baal derives from the Greek Baal, which appears in the New Testament and Septuagint,and from its Latinized form Baal, which appears in the Vulgate.

Hadad and Adad

Baal was also used as a proper name by the third millennium BCE, when he appears in a list of deities at Abu Salabikh.

Most modern scholarship asserts that this Baal usually distinguished as The Lord, Ha Baal was identical with the storm and fertility god Hadad it also appears in the form Baal Haddu.

Scholars propose that, as the cult of Hadad increased in importance, his true name came to be seen as too holy for any but the high priest to speak aloud and the alias Lord Baal was used instead, as Bel was used for Marduk among the Babylonians and Adonai for Yahweh among the Israelites.

A minority propose that Baal was a native Canaanite deity whose cult was identified with or absorbed aspects of Adads.

Regardless of their original relationship, by the 1st millennium BCE, the two were distinct Hadad was worshipped by the Aramaeans and Baal by the Phoenicians and other Canaanites.