Editing Baal (section)

===Epithets===
Ba'al's widely used epithet is "rider (or mounter<ref>Dahood, "Psalms II" 1966 p = 136 § = 68 https://archive.org/details/psaml20000unse/page/n5/mode/2up</ref>) of the clouds." (''rkb ʿrpt'', cf. ''rkb bʿrbt'' in Ps. 68:5; Ugaritic ''rkb ʿrpt''.) These are related to Zeus's "gatherer of the clouds" and Yahweh's "rider of the heavens."<ref>JANES 5 1973 Weinfeld "Rider of the Clouds"</ref> Like the English word ride, ''rkb'' has equine and sexual uses.<ref>{{cite book | last=Weninger | first=Stefan | title=The Semitic Languages | publisher=Walter de Gruyter | publication-place=Berlin [u.a..] | date=2011-12-23 | isbn=978-3-11-025158-6 | page=}}</ref>
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