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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)
Dictionary Aids

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, , (Hebrew בָּבֶל from בָּלַל to confound, according to Genesis 11:9; cf. Aeschylus Pers. 52 Βαβυλὼν δ’ 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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10 - And the beginning of his kingdom was [fn]Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 -

Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, [fn]Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30 - The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12 -

At that time [fn]Berodach-baladan, a son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, because he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - 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 from a far country, from Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17 - ‘Behold, the days are coming when everything that is in your house, and what your fathers have stored up to this day, will be carried to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - ‘And some of your sons who will come from you, whom you will father, will be taken away; and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1 -

In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and revolted against him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - Now the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken everything that belonged to the king of Egypt from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 -

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Then Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials. And the king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 -

So he led Jehoiachin into exile to Babylon; also the king’s mother, the king’s wives, and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - And all the valiant men, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, a thousand, all strong and fit for war, these too the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17 - Then the king of Babylon made [fn]his uncle Mattaniah king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - For it was due to the anger of the LORD that this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He cast them out of His presence. And Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 -

Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it, and built a siege wall all around [fn]it.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6 - Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he [fn]passed sentence on him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:7 - And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze shackles, and brought him to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 -

Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguards, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguards, led into exile the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the [fn]people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:13 -

Now the Chaldeans smashed to pieces the bronze pillars which were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze [fn]Sea which were in the house of the LORD, and carried the [fn]bronze to Babylon.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20 - Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguards took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21 - Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:22 -

Now as for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan over them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23 - When all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24 - And Gedaliah swore to them and their men and said to them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans; live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 -

Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, [fn]released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison;

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:28 - and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 -

So all Israel was enrolled in genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile to Babylon for their infidelity.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31 - Even in the matter of the messengers of the rulers of Babylon, who were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land; God left him alone only to test him, so that He might know everything that was in his heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11 - Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains, and led him to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 -

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:6 - Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:7 - Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent men and had him brought to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the LORD; and he made his relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18 - He brought all the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and his officers, to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - He took into exile those who had escaped from the sword to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11 - All the articles of gold and silver totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all up with the exiles who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1 -

Now these are the [fn]people of the province who came up out of the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had taken into exile to Babylon, and they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - ‘But because our fathers provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He handed them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17 - “And now, if it pleases the king, let a search be conducted in the king’s treasure house, which is there in Babylon, as to whether a decree was issued by King Cyrus to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem; and let the king send to us his decision concerning this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1 -

Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was conducted in the [fn]archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:6 - So this Ezra went up from Babylon, and he was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given; and the king granted him all [fn]he requested because the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, because the good hand of his God was upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:16 - with all the silver and gold which you find in the entire province of Babylon, along with the [fn]voluntary offering of the people and of the priests, who offered willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1 -

Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households and the genealogical enrollment of those who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of King Artaxerxes:

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6 -

These are the [fn]people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had taken into exile, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city,

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6 - But during all this time I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had come to the king. After some time, however, I requested a leave of absence from the king,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:6 - who had been taken from Jerusalem with the exiles who had been deported with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had deported.

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