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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 169 times in 149 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Jer 20:4–Jer 34:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:4 - “For thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon and slay them with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:5 - ‘Moreover I will deliver all the wealth of this city, all its produce, and all its precious things; all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who will plunder them, seize them, and carry them to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:6 - ‘And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. You shall go to Babylon, and there you shall die, and be buried there, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied lies.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2 - “Please inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar[fn] king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that the king may go away from us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans[fn] who besiege you outside the walls; and I will assemble them in the midst of this city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - “And afterward,” says the LORD, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them, or have pity or mercy.” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:10 - “For I have set My face against this city for adversity and not for good,” says the LORD. “It shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:25 - “and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear—the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of the Chaldeans.

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

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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 (which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - ‘behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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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 seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 - ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - ‘And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,’ says the LORD, ‘with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9 - ‘Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11 - ‘But the nations that bring their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let them remain in their own land,’ says the LORD, ‘and they shall till it and dwell in it.’ ” ’ ”

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - “Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:14 - “Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesy a lie to you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 - Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, “Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon”; for they prophesy a lie to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:17 - ‘Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city be laid waste?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:18

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:20 - “which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:22 - ‘They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I visit them,’ says the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:3 - ‘Within two full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:4 - ‘And I will bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon,’ says the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! The LORD do so; the LORD perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the LORD’s house and all who were carried away captive, from Babylon to this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon 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 BoxJer 28:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the elders who were carried away captive—to the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:3 - The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:4 - Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:10 - For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:15 - Because you have said, “The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon”—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:20 - Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:21 - Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - And because of them a curse shall be taken up by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire”;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:28 - For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, ‘This captivity is long; build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:2 - For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:3 - For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:4 - “and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face,[fn] and see him eye to eye;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:5 - “then he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall be until I visit him,” says the LORD; “though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed” ’?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:28 - “Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:36 - “Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence’:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 - The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem and all its cities, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:2 - “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:3 - ‘And you shall not escape from his hand, but shall surely be taken and delivered into his hand; your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, he shall speak with you face to face,[fn] and you shall go to Babylon.’ ” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the king of Babylon’s army fought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and Azekah; for only these fortified cities remained of the cities of Judah.

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