Babylon
בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶלStrong’s H0894bavel (ba-vel)
Appears in 233 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bavel is the Hebrew word usually translated “babylon”, “babylon towards” and “from babylon”. It appears in 233 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.”
Meaning
- § Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)"
How it's translated
- babylon 201
- babylon towards 27
- from babylon 13
- to babylon 6
- in babylon 5
- and babylon 4
- babel 2
- for babylon 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 149
- 2 Kings 28
- Ezekiel 18
- Isaiah 13
- 2 Chronicles 7
- Ezra 5
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 2:7In contextDeliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
- Zechariah 6:10In contextTake of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;
- Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Genesis 11:9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
- 2 Kings 17:24And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
- 2 Kings 17:30And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
All 233 verses, by book
- 2 Kings 28
- 17:2417:3020:1220:1420:1720:1824:124:724:1024:1124:1224:1524:1624:1724:2025:125:625:725:825:1125:1325:2025:2125:2225:2325:2425:2725:28
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 9:1
- Esther 1
- 2:6
- Jeremiah 149
- 20:420:520:621:221:421:721:1022:2524:125:125:925:1125:1227:627:827:927:1127:1227:1327:1427:1627:1727:1827:2027:2228:228:328:428:628:1128:1429:129:329:429:1029:1529:2029:2129:2229:2832:232:332:432:532:2832:3634:134:234:334:734:2135:1136:2937:137:1737:1938:338:1738:1838:2238:2339:139:339:539:639:739:939:1139:1340:140:440:540:740:940:1141:241:1842:1143:343:1044:3046:246:1346:2649:2849:3050:150:250:850:950:1350:1450:1650:1750:1850:2350:2450:2850:2950:3450:3550:4250:4350:4550:4651:151:251:651:751:851:951:1151:1251:2451:2951:3051:3151:3351:3451:3551:3751:4151:4251:4451:4751:4851:4951:5351:5451:5551:5651:5851:5951:6051:6151:6452:352:452:952:1052:1152:1252:1552:1752:2652:2752:3152:3252:34
- Daniel 1
- 1:1
- Micah 1
- 4:10
Hebrew dictionary
בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל bavel · Babylon
§ Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)" Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “babel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BA'BEL, noun
[Heb.]
Confusion; disorder.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.