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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 1 / 5 (Gen 10:10–Isa 13:1)

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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 BoxGen 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

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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 36:6

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 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 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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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4 - (LXX 86:4) I will make mention of Raab and Babylon to them that know me: behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were born there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:1 - (LXX 136:1) [fn]For David, a Psalm of Jeremias. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; and wept when we remembered Sion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:8 - (LXX 136:8) Wretched daughter of Babylon! blessed shall he be who shall reward thee as thou hast rewarded us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:1 - The Vision which Esaias son of Amos saw against Babylon.

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