בָּבֶל

bavel · Babel, Babylon

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H894 · appears 262 times in the Bible

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What it means

bavel (בָּבֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Babel, Babylon”.

Babel, the city of Mesopotamia later known as Babylon; also Babylonia and its empire. Genesis 11:9 relates its name to "confuse".

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ba·vel

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The place

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Babylon
Today: Babylon ruins, near Hillah, Iraq
A great city on the Euphrates River, in present-day Iraq, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Baghdad.
In its land the languages were confused at Babel (Gen 11:9). Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and took the people captive there (2 Kgs 25:1-11). Daniel lived there (Dan 1:1-6).
Genesis 11:9 2 Kings 25:1 Psalms 137:1 Daniel 1:1

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Babylon ×260
Babel ×2

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Comes from

בָּלַל balal · confuse, mix

Words that come from it

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Where it appears

Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 11:9
That is why its name was called Babel, because there YHWH confused the language of all the earth, and from there YHWH scattered them over the face of all the earth.
2 Kings 17:24
The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
2 Kings 17:30
The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima;
2 Kings 20:12
At that time Berodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
2 Kings 20:14
Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where do they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “From a distant land they have come, from Babylon.”
2 Kings 20:17
‘Look, days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried to Babylon; not a thing will be left, says YHWH.
2 Kings 20:18
And some of your sons who will come out from you, whom you will father, they will take; and they will be officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
2 Kings 24:1
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 Kings 24:7
The king of Egypt did not again come out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates all that had belonged to the king of Egypt.
2 Kings 24:10
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
2 Kings 24:11
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city while his servants were besieging it.
2 Kings 24:12
Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his commanders and his officials; and the king of Babylon took him in year eight of his reign.
2 Kings 24:15
He carried into exile Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the mother of the king, and the wives of the king, and his officials, and the mighty of the land; he led them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,
2 Kings 24:16
and all the men of the force, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, a thousand, all of them mighty men who waged war; and the king of Babylon brought them into exile to Babylon.
2 Kings 24:17
The king of Babylon made king Mattaniah, his uncle, in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2 Kings 24:20
For through the anger of YHWH it came to pass in Jerusalem and in Judah, until he cast them from before his face. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
2 Kings 25:1
And it happened, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his force, against Jerusalem; he encamped against it, and they built against it a siege wall all around.
2 Kings 25:6
They seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they pronounced judgment against him.
2 Kings 25:7
The sons of Zedekiah they slaughtered before his eyes; and the eyes of Zedekiah he blinded, and bound him in bronze chains and brought him to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:8
In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month —that was year nineteen of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon— Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 25:11
The rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard carried into exile.
2 Kings 25:13
The pillars of bronze that were in the house of YHWH, and the stands, and the bronze Sea that was in the house of YHWH, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and they carried their bronze to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:20
Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard took them and led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
2 Kings 25:21
The king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.
2 Kings 25:22
As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan.
2 Kings 25:23
All the chiefs of the forces, they and the men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, and they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah: Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
2 Kings 25:24
Gedaliah swore to them and to their men and said to them, “Do not fear the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.”
2 Kings 25:27
And it happened, in year thirty-seven of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison.
2 Kings 25:28
He spoke good things to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
1 Chronicles 9:1
And all Israel was enrolled in the genealogy; and there they are, written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was carried into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.
2 Chronicles 32:31
And so, with the interpreters of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, Elohim left him, to test him, to know all that was in his heart.
2 Chronicles 33:11
So YHWH brought against them the commanders of the army that belonged to the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:6
Against him Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and bound him with bronze fetters to carry him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:7
Nebuchadnezzar brought some of the utensils of the house of YHWH to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:10
At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and had him brought to Babylon, with the precious utensils of the house of YHWH, and made king over Judah and Jerusalem Zedekiah his brother.
2 Chronicles 36:18
And all the utensils of the house of Elohim, great and small, and the treasures of the house of YHWH, and the treasures of the king and of his officials, all this he brought to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:20
He carried into exile the remnant left from the sword to Babylon, and they became slaves to him and to his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to reign;
Ezra 1:11
All the utensils of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar brought up when the exiles were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Ezra 2:1
And these are the sons of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile to Babylon, and they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city,

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