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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 - And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12 - At that time Berodach-Baladan[fn] the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” So Hezekiah said, “They came from a far country, from Babylon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17 - ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - ‘And they shall take away some of your sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1 - In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land anymore, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the River Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 - At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, as his servants were besieging it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - And he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the mighty of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - All the valiant men, seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths, one thousand, all who were strong and fit for war, these the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17 - Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s[fn] uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - For because of the anger of the LORD this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, that He finally cast them out from His presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 - Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6 - So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 - And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the rest of the people who remained in the city and the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:13 - The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried their bronze to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20 - So Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21 - Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:22 - Then he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23 - Now when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Careah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah[fn] the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24 - And Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, and said to them, “Do not be afraid of the servants 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 Box 2Ki 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-Merodach[fn] king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:28

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 - So all Israel was recorded by genealogies, and indeed, they were inscribed in the book of the kings of Israel. But Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31 - However, regarding the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, whom they sent to him to inquire about the wonder that was done in the land, God withdrew from him, in order to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11 - Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks,[fn] bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:6 - Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze fetters to carry him off to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:7 - Nebuchadnezzar also carried off some of the articles from the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar summoned him and took him to Babylon, with the costly articles from the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah, Jehoiakim’s[fn] brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18 - And all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his leaders, all these he took to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11 - All the articles of gold and silver were five thousand four hundred. All these Sheshbazzar took with the captives who were brought from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1 - Now[fn] these are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his own city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - “But because our fathers provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and carried the people away to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17 - Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there in Babylon, whether it is so that a decree was issued by King Cyrus to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us his pleasure concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1 - Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was made in the archives,[fn] where the treasures were stored in Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:6 - this Ezra came up from Babylon; and he was a skilled scribe in the Law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given. The king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - On the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:16 - and whereas all the silver and gold that you may find in all the province of Babylon, along with the freewill offering of the people and the priests, are to be freely offered for the house of their God in Jerusalem—

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1 - These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes:

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6 - These[fn] are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6 - But during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Then after certain days I obtained leave from the king,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:6 - Kish[fn] had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been captured with Jeconiah[fn] king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

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