Quick Definition
Babylon
Biblical Persons & Places
Babylon
Babylon
A location first mentioned at Gen.10.10;
referred to as Babylon or Babylonia or Babel or Babylonian (KJV, NIV= Babylon) (בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל), or Babylon or Babylonia (Aramiac בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל), or Babylonian (בָּֽבְלַי), or Babylon (KJV= Sheshach, NIV= Sheshak) (שֵׁשַׁךְ), or Merathaim (מְרָתַיִם), or Pekod (פְּקוֹד), or Babylon (Βαβυλών).
Strong's Definition
Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
Derivation: from H1101 (בָּלַל); confusion;
KJV Usage: Babel, Babylon.
TWOT Reference: 197
Outline of Biblical Usage
Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)"
1) Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
§ Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)"
Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
בָּבֶל
bâbel
BDB Definition:
Babel or Babylon = confusion (by mixing)
1) Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H1101
Same Word by TWOT Number: 197
Total KJV Occurrences: 262
Bible Occurrences (233)
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20:5
20:6
21:2
21:4
21:7
21:10
22:25
24:1
25:1
25:9
25:11
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