b / BEEL -zə-bub ; ( Hebrew : בעל זבוב‎, Baʿal Zəbûb Arabic : بعل الذباب‎, Ba‘al az-Zubab ; , literally "Lord of the Flies"; Greek : Βεελζεβούλ, Beelzeboúl ; Latin : Beelzebūb ), with numerous archaic variants, [1] is a Semitic deity that was worshiped in the Philistine city of