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NERGAL

(Heb. nērgal)

The Babylonian god of the netherworld, worshipped by peoples resettled in Samaria after its fall in 722 b.c.e. (2 Kgs. 17:30). The name is a transliteration of Sum. [E]N.ER[I].GAL, lit., “lord of the big city” (i.e., the underworld). His cult was centered in Kutha (biblical Cuth), 32 km. (20 mi.) NE of Babylon. The Akkadians identified Nergal with their underworld deity Erra, and by the 1st millennium the two were synonymous. The West Semitic peoples later identified him with Resheph. Nergal was associated with pestilence, drought, famine, fire, and sudden death. Thus, he was called upon by Assyrian and Babylonian kings to aid in their foreign campaigns.

Mark Anthony Phelps






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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