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Lexicon :: Strong's H894 - bāḇel

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בָּבֶל
Transliteration
bāḇel
Pronunciation
baw-vel'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 197

Strong’s Definitions

בָּבֶל Bâbel, baw-bel'; from H1101; confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire:—Babel, Babylon.

Note by BLB: Strong's entry lists the pronunciation of this word with the "b" sound. This is incorrect. The ב (bet) does not have a daghesh lene so it is pronounced with a "v" sound. This is why the transliteration has a bar under the "b" (ḇ).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 262x

The KJV translates Strong's H894 in the following manner: Babylon (257x), Babylonian (with H1121) (3x), Babel (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 262x
The KJV translates Strong's H894 in the following manner: Babylon (257x), Babylonian (with H1121) (3x), Babel (2x).

  1. Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)"

    1. Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּבֶל Bâbel, baw-bel'; from H1101; confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire:—Babel, Babylon.

Note by BLB: Strong's entry lists the pronunciation of this word with the "b" sound. This is incorrect. The ב (bet) does not have a daghesh lene so it is pronounced with a "v" sound. This is why the transliteration has a bar under the "b" (ḇ).

STRONGS H894: Abbreviations
בָּבֶ֫ל 262 proper name, of a location Babel, Babylon (in Assyrian written Bab-ilu, gate of god DlPa 212, compare on other hand JenKosmol. 498) — with ָ  ה locative בָּבֶ֫לָה Ezekiel 12:13 +, בָּבֶ֑לָה 2 Kings 20:17 —מִבָּבֶ֫לָה Jeremiah 27:16; — the ancient capital of Babylonia, modern Hillah, situated on Euphrates, in long. approximately 440 30° east, and latitude approximately 320 50° north; Genesis 10:10; Genesis 11:9 (where name connected with בלל confuse, confound), both J, not elsewhere in Hexateuch; 2 Kings 17:24 + 31 times 2 Kings; + 18 times Chronicles; Esther 2:6; late Psalm 87:4; Psalm 137:1; Psalm 137:8; Isa2; Isa3, namely Isaiah 13:1, 19; Isaiah 14:4, 22; Isaiah 21:9; Isaiah 39:1, 3, 6, 7; Isaiah 43:14; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:14, 20; Micah 4:10 (but here probably not original, compare RSProph. vii. n. 5 & references) Zechariah 2:11; Zechariah 6:10; Daniel 1:1; Ezekiel 12:13 + 19 times Ezekiel; Jeremiah 20:4 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 20:5, 6 165 times Jeremiah — note especially אֶרֶץ בּ׳ Jeremiah 50:28; also of land & people = realm, particular in מֶלֶךְ בּ׳ 2 Kings 20:12 of Merodach Baladan; 2 Kings 20:18; 2 Kings 24:1, 7, 11, 12 (twice in verse) + often of Nebuchadrezzar; 2 Kings 25:27 = Jeremiah 52:31 compare Jeremiah 52:34 of Evil-Merodach; Nehemiah 13:6 of Artaxerxes; the city personified as בַּת בָּבֶל Isaiah 47:1; Jeremiah 50:42. (See DlPa 212 COT Genesis 11:9 KG95.)

See related Aramaic BDB entry H895.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:10; 11:9; 11:9

2 Kings

17:24; 20:12; 20:17; 20:18; 24:1; 24:7; 24:11; 24:12; 25:27

Nehemiah

13:6

Esther

2:6

Psalms

87:4; 137:1; 137:8

Isaiah

13:1; 13:19; 14:4; 14:22; 21:9; 39:1; 39:3; 39:6; 39:7; 43:14; 47:1; 47:1; 48:14; 48:20

Jeremiah

20:1; 20:4; 20:5; 20:6; 27:16; 50:28; 50:42; 52:31; 52:34

Ezekiel

12:13; 12:13

Daniel

1:1

Micah

4:10

Zechariah

2:11; 6:10

H894

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Strong's Number H894 matches the Hebrew בָּבֶל (bāḇel),
which occurs 262 times in 233 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 5 (Isa 13:19–Jer 29:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:19 - And Babylon, H894 the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:4 - that you will take up this [fn]taunt against the king of Babylon, H894 and say,
“How the oppressor has ceased,
And how [fn]fury has ceased!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:22 - “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon H894 name and survivors, offspring and posterity,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:9 - “Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; H894
And all the images of her gods [fn]are shattered on the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:1 - At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, H894 sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:3 - Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon.” H894

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:6 - ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon; H894 nothing will be left,’ says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:7 - ‘And some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will beget, will be taken away, and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’” H894

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:14 - Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“For your sake I have sent to Babylon, H894
And will bring them all down as fugitives,
[fn]Even the Chaldeans, into the ships [fn]in which they rejoice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:1 - “Come down and sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon; H894
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:14 - “Assemble, all of you, and listen!
Who among them has declared these things?
The LORD loves him; he will carry out His good pleasure on Babylon, H894
And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:20 - Go forth from Babylon! H894 Flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with the sound of joyful shouting, proclaim this,
Send it out to the end of the earth;
Say, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:4 - “For thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; and while your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will give over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, H894 and he will carry them away as exiles to Babylon H894 and will slay them with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:5 - ‘I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:6 - ‘And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity; and you will enter Babylon, H894 and there you will die and there you will be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have falsely prophesied.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2 - “Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 is warring against us; perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His [fn]wonderful acts, so that the enemy will withdraw from us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon H894 and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - “Then afterwards,” declares the LORD, “I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, H894 and into the hand of their foes and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:10 - “For I have set My face against this city for [fn]harm and not for good,” declares the LORD. “It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon H894 and he will burn it with fire.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:25 - and I will give you over into the hand of those who are seeking your life, yes, into the hand of those whom you dread, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:1 - After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, H894 the LORD showed me: behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, H894 My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will [fn]utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - ‘This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon H894 seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 - ‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon H894 and that nation,’ declares the LORD, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:6 - “Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, H894 My servant, and I have given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - “It will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, H894 and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, H894 I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine and with pestilence,” declares the LORD, “until I have destroyed [fn]it by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9 - “But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your [fn]dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11 - “But the nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon H894 and serve him, I will let remain on its land,” declares the LORD, “and they will till it and dwell in it.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:12 - I spoke words like all these to Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon H894 and serve him and his people, and live!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - “Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, famine and pestilence, as the LORD has spoken to that nation which will not serve the king of Babylon? H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:14 - “So do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ H894 for they prophesy a lie to you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 - Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the LORD’S house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon’; H894 for they are prophesying a lie to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:17 - “Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, H894 and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:18 - “But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them now entreat the LORD of hosts that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:20 - which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 did not take when he carried into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, H894 and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:22 - ‘They will be carried to Babylon H894 and they will be there until the day I visit them,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them [fn]back and restore them to this place.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:2 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:3 - ‘Within two years I am going to bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD’S house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 took away from this place and carried to Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:4 - ‘I am also going to bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon,’ H894 declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’” H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD [fn]confirm your words which you have prophesied to bring back the vessels of the LORD’S house and all the exiles, from Babylon H894 to this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Even so will I break within two full years the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 from the neck of all the nations.’” Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:14 - ‘For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; H894 and they will serve him. And I have also given him the beasts of the field.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:3 - The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon H894 to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, H894 saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:4 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:10 - “For thus says the LORD, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, H894 I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:15 - “Because you have said, ‘The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon’ H894—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:20 - “You, therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:21 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsely in My name, ‘Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, H894 and he will slay them before your eyes.

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