Babylon
בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶלStrong’s H0895bavel (ba-vel)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bavel is the Aramaic word usually translated “babylon”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.”
Meaning
- § Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)"
How it's translated
- babylon 21
- to babylon 2
- in babylon 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 14
- Ezra 7
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:14In contextThen Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:
- Daniel 2:18In contextThat they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:24In contextTherefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 2:48In contextThen the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:49In contextThen Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
- Daniel 3:1In contextNebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Aramaic dictionary
בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל bavel · Babylon
Aramaic of ba.vel (בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל "Babylon" H0894) § 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).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.