Beelzebub (Beel`zebub) , the god of flies, protector against them, worshipped by the Phoenicians; as being a heathen deity, transformed by the Jews into a chief of the devils; sometimes identified with Satan, and sometimes his aide-de-camp.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Beehive houses * Beerbohm Tree, Herbert