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HebrewH0894Noun

בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל

ba.vel

230Occurrences
H0894Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire

from H1101 (בָּלַל); confusion;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)" Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל appears 230 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
149
2 Kings
28
Ezk
16
Isaiah
13
2 Chronicles
7
Ezra
5
Psalms
3
Genesis
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 9:1BSB

So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

Ezk 24:2BSB

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Jeremiah 27:13BSB

Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 39:6BSB

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

Jeremiah 51:9BSB

“We tried to heal Babylon,but she could not be healed.Abandon her!Let each of us go to his own land,for her judgment extends to the skyand reaches to the clouds.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.