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Lexicon :: Strong's G897 - babylōn

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Βαβυλών
Transliteration
babylōn (Key)
Pronunciation
bab-oo-lone'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin בָּבֶל (H894)
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TDNT Reference: 1:514,89

Strong’s Definitions

Βαβυλών Babylṓn, bab-oo-lone'; of Hebrew origin (H894); Babylon, the capitol of Chaldæa (literally or figuratively (as a type of tyranny)):—Babylon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G897 in the following manner: Babylon (12x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G897 in the following manner: Babylon (12x).

  1. Babylon = "confusion"

    1. a very large and famous city, the residence of the Babylonian kings, situated on both banks of the Euphrates. Cyrus had formerly captured it, but Darius Hystaspis threw down its gates and walls, and Xerxes destroyed the temple of Belis. At length the city was reduced to almost solitude, the population having been drawn off by the neighbouring Seleucia, built on the Tigris by Seleucus Nicanor.

    2. of the territory of Babylonia

    3. allegorically, of Rome as the most corrupt seat of idolatry and the enemy of Christianity

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Βαβυλών Babylṓn, bab-oo-lone'; of Hebrew origin (H894); Babylon, the capitol of Chaldæa (literally or figuratively (as a type of tyranny)):—Babylon.
STRONGS G897:
Βαβυλών, -ῶνος, ἡ, (Hebrew בָּבֶל from בָּלַל to confound, according to Genesis 11:9; cf. Aeschylus Pers. 52 Βαβυλὼν δ’ ἡ πολύχρυσος πάμμικτον ὄχλον πέμπει σύρδην. But more correctly, as it seems, from בַּל בָּאב the gate i. e. the court or city of Belus [Assyrian Bâb-Il the Gate of God; (perhaps of Il, the supreme God); cf. Schrader, Keilinschr. u. d. Alt. Test. 2te Aufl., p. 127f; Oppert in the Zeitsch. d. Deutsch. Morg. Gesellschaft, viii., p. 595]), Babylon, formerly a very celebrated and large city, the residence of the Babylonian kings, situated on both banks of the Euphrates. Cyrus had formerly captured it, but Darius Hystaspis threw down its gates and walls, and Xerxes destroyed [?] the temple of Belus. At length the city was reduced almost to a solitude, the population having been drawn off by the neighboring Seleucia, built on the Tigris by Seleucus Nicanor. [Cf. Prof. Rawlinson in B. D. under the word and his Herodotus, vol. i. Essays vi. and viii., vol. ii. Essay iv.] The name is used in the N. T.
1. of the city itself: Acts 7:43; 1 Peter 5:13 (where some have understood Babylon, a small town in Egypt, to be referred to; but in opposition cf. Mayerhoff, Einl. in die petrin. Schriften, p. 126ff; [cf. 3 at the end below]).
2. of the territory, Babylonia: Matthew 1:11f, 17; [often so in Greek writings].
3. allegorically, of Rome as the most corrupt seat of idolatry and the enemy of Christianity: Revelation 14:8 [here Rec.elz Βαβουλών]; Rev 16:19; 17:5; 18:2,10,21 (in the opinion of some 1 Peter 5:13 also; [cf. 1 at the end, above]).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
11:9
Matthew
1:11; 1:17
Acts
7:43
1 Peter
5:13; 5:13
Revelation
14:8; 16:19; 17:5; 18:2; 18:10; 18:21

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G897 matches the Greek Βαβυλών (babylōn),
which occurs 242 times in 221 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 10:10–Est 2:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10 - And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Orech, and Archad, and Chalanne, in the land of Senaar.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - And the king of Assyria brought from Babylon the men of Chutha, and men from Aia, and from Æmath, and Seppharvaim, and they were settled in the cities of Samaria in the place of the children of Israel: and they inherited Samaria, and were settled in its cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30 - And the men of Babylon made Socchoth Benith, and the men of Chuth made Ergel, and the men of Hæmath made Asimath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12 - At that time Marodach Baladan, son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Ezekias, because he had heard that Ezekias was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - And Esaias the prophet went in to king Ezekias, and said to him, What said these men? and whence came they to thee? And Ezekias said, They came to me from a distant land, even from Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17 - Behold, the days come, that all things that are in thy house shall be taken, and all that thy fathers have treasured up until this day, to Babylon; and there shall not [fn]fail a word which the Lord has spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - And as for thy sons which shall come forth of thee, which thou shalt beget, the enemy shall take them, and they shall be eunuchs in the house of the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1 - In his days went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and Joakim became his servant three years; and then he turned and revolted from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - And the king of Egypt came no more out of his land: for the king of Babylon took away all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the river of Egypt as far as the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 - At that time went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and the city [fn]was besieged.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - And Joachim king of Juda came forth to the king of Babylon, he and his servants, and his mother, and his princes, and his eunuchs; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - And he carried Joachim away to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and he carried away the mighty men of the land into [fn]captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and one thousand artificers and smiths: all were mighty men fit for war; and the king of Babylon carried them captive to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17 - And the king of Babylon made [fn]Batthanias his son king in his stead, and called his name Sedekias.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - For it was [fn]according to the Lord's anger against Jerusalem and on Juda, until he cast them out of his presence, that Sedekias revolted against the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 - And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem; and he encamped against it, and built a [fn]mound against it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6 - And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha; and he gave judgment upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:7 - And he slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 - And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (this is the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon), came Nabuzardan, [fn]captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard removed the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the [fn]men who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:13 - And the Chaldeans broke to pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and carried their brass to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20 - And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21 - And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at Reblatha in the land of Æmath. So Juda was carried away from his land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:22 - And as for the people that were left in the land of Juda, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon left, even over them he set Godolias son of Achicam son of Saphan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23 - And all the captains of the host, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had thus appointed Godolias, and they came to Godolias to Massephath, both Ismael the son of Nathanias, and Jona son of Careth, and Saraias, son of Thanamath the Netophathite, and Jezonias son of a Machathite, they and their men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24 - And Godolias swore to them and their men, and said to them, Fear not the [fn]incursion of the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the carrying away of Joachim king of Juda, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evialmarodec king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Joachim king of Juda, and brought him out of his prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:28 - And he spoke [fn]kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 - And this is all Israel, even their enrolment: and these are written down in the book of the kings of Israel and Juda, with the names of them that were carried away to Babylon for their transgressions.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31 - Notwithstanding, in regard to the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who were sent to him to enquire of him concerning the prodigy which came upon the land, the Lord left him, to try him, to know what was in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11 - And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasses in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Joachim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zechora, daughter of Nerias of Rama. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers did. (LXX 36:5a) In his days came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon into the land, and he served him three years, and then revolted from him. (36:5b) And the Lord sent against them the Chaldeans, and plundering parties of Syrians, and plundering parties of the Moabites, and of the children of Ammon, and of Samaria; but after this they departed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of his servants the prophets. (36:5c) Nevertheless the wrath of the Lord was upon Juda, so that they should be removed from his presence, because of the sins of Manasses in all that he did, (36:5d) and for the innocent blood which Joakim shed, for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; yet the Lord would not utterly destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:6 - And Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him with brazen fetters, and carried him away to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:7 - And he carried away a part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple in Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - And at the turn of the year, king Nabuchodonosor sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Sedekias his father's brother king over Juda and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18 - And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and all the treasures of the king and the great men; he brought all to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - And he carried away the remnant to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of the Medes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11 - All the gold and silver vessels were five thousand four hundred, even all that went up with Sasabasar from the place of transportation, from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1 - And these are the people of the land that went up, of the number of prisoners who were removed, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon carried away to Babylon, and they returned to Juda and Jerusalem, every man to his city;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - But after that our fathers provoked the God of heaven, he gave them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the Chaldean, king of Babylon, and he destroyed this house, and carried the people captive to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17 - And now, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the treasure-house of the king at Babylon, that thou mayest know if it be that a decree was made by king Cyrus to build that house of God that was in Jerusalem, and let the king send to us when he has learnt concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1 - Then Darius the king made a decree, and caused a search to be made in the record-offices, where the treasure is stored in Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:6 - This Esdras went up out of Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel gave: and the king gave him leave, for the hand of the Lord his God was upon him in all things which he sought.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - For in the first day of the first month he began the going up from Babylon, and in the first day of the fifth month they came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:16 - And all the silver and gold, whatsoever thou shalt find in all the land of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and the priests that offer freely for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1 - And these are the heads of their families, the leaders that went up with me in the reign of Arthasastha the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6 - Now these are the children of the country, that came up from captivity, of the number which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon carried away, and they returned to Jerusalem and to Juda, every man to his city;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6 - But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Arthasastha king of Babylon I came to the king, and after a certain time I made my request of the king;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:6 - who had been brought a prisoner from Jerusalem, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried into captivity.

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