בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל
ba.vel
“Babylon”
Definition
{Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire}
(Aramaic) corresponding to H894 (בָּבֶל)
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun
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N:N--L
Occurrences
בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל appears 18 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
This response made the king so furious with anger that he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”
King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
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