TYPE: God of uncertain status
ORIGIN: Western Semitic
INFORMATION: Probably concerned with chance or fortune and known from Palmyrene inscriptions, and from the Vetus Testamentum in place names such as Baal-Gad and Midal-Gad. Popular across a wide area of Syria, Palestine and Anatolia in pre-Biblical times. Thought to have been sycretized ultimately with the Greek goddess Tyche.