The Hebrew word signifies “worthless, lawless,” and is not a proper name, but is used as a personification of evil; thus we have “son of Belial, daughter of Belial” (Deut. 13:13; Judg. 19:22; 1 Sam. 1:16; 1 Sam. 25:17,25). In the New Testament it is put in contradistinction to Christ as if it meant Satan ( 2 Cor. 6:15); it is there βελίαρ.