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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.
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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 2 / 5 (Isa 13:19–Jer 29:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:19 - And Babylon, H894 the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:4 - That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, H894 and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:22 - For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon H894 the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:9 - And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon H894 is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:1 - At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, H894 sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:3 - Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:6 - Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: H894 nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:7 - And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:14 - Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, H894 and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:1 - Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, H894 sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:14 - All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, H894 and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:20 - Go ye forth of Babylon, H894 flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:4 - For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, H894 and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, H894 and shall slay them with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:5 - Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:6 - And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, H894 and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2 - Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon H894 maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, H894 and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, H894 and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:10 - For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, H894 and he shall burn it with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:25 - And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, H894 and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:1 - The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon H894 had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, H894 my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon H894 seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 - And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, H894 and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:6 - And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, H894 my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, H894 and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, H894 that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9 - Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11 - But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, H894 and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:12 - I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, H894 and serve him and his people, and live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:14 - Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: H894 for they prophesy a lie unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 - Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: H894 for they prophesy a lie unto you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:17 - Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, H894 and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:18 - But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:20 - Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, H894 and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:22 - They shall be carried to Babylon, H894 and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:2 - Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:3 - Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon: H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:4 - And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, H894 saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon H894 into this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:14 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; H894 and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:3 - By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon H894 to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) H894 saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:4 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:10 - For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon H894 I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:15 - Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:20 - Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: H894

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:21 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; H894 and he shall slay them before your eyes;

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