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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 - The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in[fn] Shinar.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Kuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took over Samaria and lived in its towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30 - The people from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, those from Kuthah made Nergal, and those from Hamath made Ashima;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12 - At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of Hezekiah’s illness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?” “From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came from Babylon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17 - The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1 - During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded the land, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. But then he turned against Nebuchadnezzar and rebelled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - The king of Egypt did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 - At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king’s mother, his wives, his officials and the prominent people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand skilled workers and artisans.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17 - He made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - It was because of the LORD’s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence. Now Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 - So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6 - and he was captured. He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where sentence was pronounced on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:7 - They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 - On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:13 - The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20 - Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21 - There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed. So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:22 - Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to be over the people he had left behind in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23 - When all the army officers and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maakathite, and their men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24 - Gedaliah took an oath to reassure them and their men. “Do not be afraid of the Babylonian officials,” he said. “Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison. He did this on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:28 - He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 - All Israel was listed in the genealogies recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. They were taken captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31 - But when envoys were sent by the rulers of Babylon to ask him about the miraculous sign that had occurred in the land, God left him to test him and to know everything that was in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11 - So the LORD brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:6 - Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:7 - Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon articles from the temple of the LORD and put them in his temple[fn] there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon, together with articles of value from the temple of the LORD, and he made Jehoiachin’s uncle,[fn] Zedekiah, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18 - He carried to Babylon all the articles from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the LORD’s temple and the treasures of the king and his officials.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - He carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his successors until the kingdom of Persia came to power.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11 - In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and of silver. Sheshbazzar brought all these along with the exiles when they came up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1 - Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive to Babylon (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to their own town,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, king of Babylon, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17 - Now if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the royal archives of Babylon to see if King Cyrus did in fact issue a decree to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1 - King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:6 - this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - He had begun his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for the gracious hand of his God was on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:16 - together with all the silver and gold you may obtain from the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests for the temple of their God in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1 - These are the family heads and those registered with them who came up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6 - These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6 - But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:6 - who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin[fn] king of Judah.

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