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lord of the flies

Calque of Biblical Hebrew בַּעַל זְבוּב (baʿal zəḇûḇ, “fly-lord, Beelzebub”), which in turn is a mistranslation of the name of the Semitic devil Baal-zevuv.

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Wiktionary: lord of the flies (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 750 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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c. 750 BCE
c. 1500

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