בָּבֶ֫ל
Babylon
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- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
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- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H894 appears in the Book of Jeremiah — 149 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 20:4 בָּבֶ֔ל בָּבֶ֖לָ/ה n Proper n Proper + sfx dem For thus says Yahweh, 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; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.
- Jeremiah 20:5 בָּבֶֽלָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains of it, and all the precious things of it, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 20:6 וּ/בָבֶ֣ל conj + n Proper You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there shall you be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.
- Jeremiah 21:2 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Please inquire of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon makes war against us: peradventure Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
- Jeremiah 21:4 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper Thus says Yahweh, the 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 against the Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.
- Jeremiah 21:7 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even 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, and 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, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
- Jeremiah 21:10 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
- Jeremiah 22:25 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper and I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
- Jeremiah 24:1 בָּבֶ֡ל בָּבֶֽל n Proper n Proper Yahweh shown me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh, after that Nebuchadrezzar 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.
- Jeremiah 25:1 בָּבֶֽל n Proper 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 (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon),
- Jeremiah 25:9 בָּבֶל֮ n Proper behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 25:11 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Jeremiah 25:12 בָּבֶל֩ n Proper It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.
- Jeremiah 27:6 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.
- Jeremiah 27:8 בָּבֶ֔ל בָּבֶ֑ל n Proper n Proper It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
- Jeremiah 27:9 בָּבֶֽל n Proper But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:
- Jeremiah 27:11 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
- Jeremiah 27:12 בָּבֶ֗ל n Proper I 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.
- Jeremiah 27:13 בָּבֶֽל n Proper Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
- Jeremiah 27:14 בָּבֶ֑ל n Proper Don't 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.
- Jeremiah 27:16 מִ/בָּבֶ֖לָ/ה prep + n Proper + sfx dem Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Don't listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
- Jeremiah 27:17 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?
- Jeremiah 27:18 בָּבֶֽלָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don't go to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 27:20 בָּבֶ֔ל בָּבֶ֑לָ/ה n Proper n Proper + sfx dem which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn't 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;
- Jeremiah 27:22 בָּבֶ֥לָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
- Jeremiah 28:2 בָּבֶֽל n Proper Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 28:3 בָּבֶל֙ בָּבֶֽל n Proper n Proper Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:
- Jeremiah 28:4 בָּבֶ֗לָ/ה בָּבֶֽל n Proper + sfx dem n Proper and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 28:6 מִ/בָּבֶ֖ל prep + n Proper even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so; Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.
- Jeremiah 28:11 בָּבֶ֗ל n Proper Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. The prophet Jeremiah went his way.
- Jeremiah 28:14 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper For thus says Yahweh 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: and I have given him the animals of the field also.
- Jeremiah 29:1 בָּבֶֽלָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,
- Jeremiah 29:3 בָּבֶ֖ל בָּבֶ֥לָ/ה n Proper n Proper + sfx dem 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,
- Jeremiah 29:4 בָּבֶֽלָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:
- Jeremiah 29:10 לְ/בָבֶ֛ל prep + n Proper For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
- Jeremiah 29:15 בָּבֶֽלָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;
- Jeremiah 29:20 בָּבֶֽלָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem Hear you therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 29:21 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes;
- Jeremiah 29:22 בְּ/בָבֶ֖ל בָּבֶ֖ל prep + n Proper n Proper and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
- Jeremiah 29:28 בָּבֶ֥ל n Proper because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?
- Jeremiah 32:2 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
- Jeremiah 32:3 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
- Jeremiah 32:4 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes;
- Jeremiah 32:5 וּ/בָבֶ֞ל conj + n Proper and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not prosper?
- Jeremiah 32:28 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
- Jeremiah 32:36 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:
- Jeremiah 34:1 בָּבֶ֣ל n Proper The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of it, saying:
- Jeremiah 34:2 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
- Jeremiah 34:3 בָּבֶ֜ל וּ/בָבֶ֥ל n Proper conj + n Proper and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 34:7 בָּבֶ֗ל n Proper when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone] remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities.
- Jeremiah 34:21 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone away from you.
- Jeremiah 35:11 בָּבֶל֮ n Proper But it happened, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 36:29 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?
- Jeremiah 37:1 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
- Jeremiah 37:17 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 37:19 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
- Jeremiah 38:3 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
- Jeremiah 38:17 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house.
- Jeremiah 38:18 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand.
- Jeremiah 38:22 בָּבֶ֑ל n Proper behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, and have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.
- Jeremiah 38:23 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper They shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.
- Jeremiah 39:1 בָּבֶ֤ל n Proper It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;
- Jeremiah 39:3 בָּבֶ֔ל בָּבֶֽל n Proper n Proper that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [to wit], Nergal Sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 39:5 בָּבֶ֛ל n Proper But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.
- Jeremiah 39:6 בָּבֶ֜ל בָּבֶֽל n Proper n Proper Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah.
- Jeremiah 39:7 בָּבֶֽלָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 39:9 בָּבֶֽל n Proper Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.
- Jeremiah 39:11 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
- Jeremiah 39:13 בָּבֶֽל n Proper So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;
- Jeremiah 40:1 בָּבֶֽלָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 40:4 בָבֶ֗ל בָבֶ֖ל n Proper n Proper Now, behold, I loose you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seem good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well to you; but if it seem ill to you to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.
- Jeremiah 40:5 בָּבֶ֜ל n Proper Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he], to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.
- Jeremiah 40:7 בָּבֶ֛ל בָּבֶֽלָ/ה n Proper n Proper + sfx dem Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon;
- Jeremiah 40:9 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, Don't be afraid to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
- Jeremiah 40:11 בָּבֶ֛ל n Proper Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;
- Jeremiah 41:2 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
- Jeremiah 41:18 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.
- Jeremiah 42:11 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; don't be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
- Jeremiah 43:3 בָּבֶֽל n Proper but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 43:10 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper and tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
- Jeremiah 44:30 בָּבֶ֛ל n Proper Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.
- Jeremiah 46:2 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
- Jeremiah 46:13 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.
- Jeremiah 46:26 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 49:28 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise you, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
- Jeremiah 49:30 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.
- Jeremiah 50:1 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
- Jeremiah 50:2 בָבֶ֜ל n Proper Declare you among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.
- Jeremiah 50:8 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.
- Jeremiah 50:9 בָּבֶ֜ל n Proper For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.
- Jeremiah 50:13 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
- Jeremiah 50:14 בָּבֶ֤ל n Proper Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 50:16 מִ/בָּבֶ֔ל prep + n Proper Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.
- Jeremiah 50:17 בָּבֶֽל n Proper Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
- Jeremiah 50:18 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
- Jeremiah 50:23 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
- Jeremiah 50:24 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 50:28 בָּבֶ֑ל n Proper The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.
- Jeremiah 50:29 בָּבֶ֣ל n Proper Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 50:34 בָבֶֽל n Proper Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:35 בָבֶ֔ל n Proper A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.
- Jeremiah 50:42 בָּבֶֽל n Proper They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:43 בָּבֶ֛ל n Proper The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
- Jeremiah 50:45 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
- Jeremiah 50:46 בָבֶ֔ל n Proper At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.
- Jeremiah 51:1 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
- Jeremiah 51:2 לְ/בָבֶ֤ל prep + n Proper I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
- Jeremiah 51:6 בָּבֶ֗ל n Proper Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
- Jeremiah 51:7 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
- Jeremiah 51:8 בָבֶ֖ל n Proper Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
- Jeremiah 51:9 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
- Jeremiah 51:11 בָּבֶ֥ל n Proper Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
- Jeremiah 51:12 בָּבֶ֜ל בָבֶֽל n Proper n Proper Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:24 לְ/בָבֶ֜ל prep + n Proper I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 51:29 בָּבֶל֙ בָּבֶ֛ל n Proper n Proper The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 51:30 בָבֶ֜ל n Proper The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.
- Jeremiah 51:31 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
- Jeremiah 51:33 בָּבֶ֕ל n Proper For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
- Jeremiah 51:34 בָּבֶל֒ n Proper Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
- Jeremiah 51:35 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
- Jeremiah 51:37 בָבֶ֨ל n Proper Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 51:41 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
- Jeremiah 51:42 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.
- Jeremiah 51:44 בְּ/בָבֶ֗ל בָּבֶ֖ל prep + n Proper n Proper I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
- Jeremiah 51:47 בָבֶ֔ל n Proper Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
- Jeremiah 51:48 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 51:49 בָּבֶ֕ל לְ/בָבֶ֥ל n Proper prep + n Proper As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.
- Jeremiah 51:53 בָבֶל֙ n Proper Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 51:54 מִ/בָּבֶ֑ל prep + n Proper The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
- Jeremiah 51:55 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:
- Jeremiah 51:56 בָּבֶל֙ n Proper for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
- Jeremiah 51:58 בָּבֶ֤ל n Proper Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
- Jeremiah 51:59 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain.
- Jeremiah 51:60 בָּבֶ֖ל בָּבֶֽל n Proper n Proper Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:61 בָבֶ֔ל n Proper Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,
- Jeremiah 51:64 בָּבֶ֤ל n Proper and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 52:3 בָּבֶֽל n Proper For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 52:4 בָּבֶ֜ל n Proper It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
- Jeremiah 52:9 בָּבֶ֛ל n Proper Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.
- Jeremiah 52:10 בָּבֶ֛ל n Proper The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
- Jeremiah 52:11 בָּבֶל֙ בָּבֶ֔לָ/ה n Proper n Proper + sfx dem He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
- Jeremiah 52:12 בָּבֶ֑ל בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper n Proper Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:
- Jeremiah 52:15 בָּבֶ֔ל n Proper Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
- Jeremiah 52:17 בָּבֶֽלָ/ה n Proper + sfx dem The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 52:26 בָּבֶ֖ל n Proper Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
- Jeremiah 52:27 בָּבֶ֧ל n Proper The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
- Jeremiah 52:31 בָּבֶ֜ל n Proper It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;
- Jeremiah 52:32 בְּ/בָבֶֽל prep + n Proper and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
- Jeremiah 52:34 בָּבֶ֛ל n Proper and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
About this entry
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“Babylon” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name בבל (Bâbel). More than half of its appearances fall in Jeremiah. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 233 verses — common. First canonically at Genesis 10:10, it enters the text early. See 233-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H894 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 233
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 233 distinct verses.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #188
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 188 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 233 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 233 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 211 verses · 91%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 20 verses · 9%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 1%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Babylon 231×, Against babylon 8×, Babylon's 8×
- American Standard Version: Babylon 225×, Against babylon 5×, Concerning babylon 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Babylon 240×, Babylon’s 6×, Against babylon 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Babylon 123×, Babel 2×, Babylonians 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H894 across 259 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H894 across 259 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H894 across 254 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H894 across 133 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)"
- Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates
Word origin
n.pr.loc. Babel, Babylon (in Assyrian written Bâb-ili, gate of god DlPa 212, cf. on other hand JenKosmol. 498)—c. ָהloc. בָּבֶ֫לָה Ez 12:13 +, בָּבֶ֑לָה 2 K 20:17 + once מִכָּבֶ֫לָה Je 27:16;—the ancient capital of Babylonia, mod. Hillah, situated on Euphrates, in long. c. 44° 30’ E., and lat. c. 32° 50’ N.; Gn 10:10; 11:9 (where name connected with בלל confuse, confound), both J, not elsewhere in Hex; 2 K 17:24 + 31 times 2 K; 18 times Chr; Est 2:6; late ψ 87:4; 137:1, 8; Is 2, 3, viz. 13:1, 9; 14:4, 22; 21:9; 39:1, 3, 6, 7; 43:14; 47:1; 48:14, 20; Mi 4:10 (but here prob. not orig., cf. RSProph. vii. n. 5 & reff.) Zc 2:11; 6:10 Dn 1:1 Ez 12:13 + 19 times Ez; Je 20:4(×2) 5, 6 + 165 times Je;—note especially אֶרֶץ בּ׳ Je 50:28; also of land & people = realm, partic. in מֶלֶךְ בּ׳ 2 K 20:12 of Merodach Baladan; v 18; 24:1, 7, 11, 12(×2) + often of Nebuchadrezzar; 2 K 25:27 = Je 52:31 cf. v 34 of Evil-Merodach; Ne 13:6 of Artaxerxes; the city personif. as בַּת בָּבֶל Is 47:1 Je 50:42. (See DlPa 212 COT Gn 11:9; KG 95.)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בלל (bâlal) (H1101) — to mix.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בָּבֶל
- (b. h.) pr. n. Babel, the city of Babylon; Babylonia, a country of varying limits, chiefly comprising Mesopotamia, a portion of Great Armenia and some neighbouring countries east of the Tigris (v. Neub. Géogr. p. 320). [Owing to the continued political disturbances in Palestine, Babylonia gradually became the centre of Jewish scholarship; hence both the frequent comparisons and jealousies between the East and the West (Babyl. a. Palest.); cmp. אֶרֶץ, חֲנַנְיָה, תַּלְמוּד. Kidd. 69ᵇ; 71ᵇ. Sot. 49ᵇ. Y. Snh. I, 19ᵃ; Y. Ned. VI, 40ᵃ bot. כי מב׳ תצא וכ׳ (sarcastic imitation of Is. II, 3). Snh. 24ᵃ תלמודה של ב׳ Babylonian method (Talmud). עולי ב׳ those coming from Bab. to visit the Temple, pilgrims. Ned. V, 4 דבר של ע׳ ב׳ that in which pilgrims from Bab. (i.e. Jews living abroad) have a share, as the Temple Mount &c. [Macc. 24ᵃ, a. e. המונה של ב׳, read רומי as Ms. M.; cmp. אֲרָמִי.] e.g. Isaiah 2:3
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 56 distinct written forms H894 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בָּבֶ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 17:16 | 39 |
| בָּבֶ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 21:19 | 37 |
| בָּבֶֽל | Noun, Proper | Esther 2:6 | 23 |
| בָּבֶל֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 24:2 | 19 |
| בָּבֶֽלָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 17:12 | 16 |
| בָּבֶ֛ל | Noun, Proper | Daniel 1:1 | 15 |
| בָּבֶ֑ל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 19:9 | 14 |
| בָּבֶ֜ל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 21:21 | 10 |
| בָּבֶ֗ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 32:31 | 8 |
| בָּבֶ֤ל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 17:12 | 5 |
| בָבֶ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 50:35 | 4 |
| בָבֶל֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 23:15 | 4 |
| מִ/בָּבֶֽל | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:1 | 4 |
| בָבֶֽל | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 36:18 | 3 |
| בְּ/בָבֶֽל | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 36:7 | 3 |
| בָּבֶ֑לָ/ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 20:17 | 3 |
| בָבֶ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 40:4 | 2 |
| בָבֶ֗ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 17:30 | 2 |
| בָבֶ֗לָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 17:20 | 2 |
| בָבֶ֜ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 50:2 | 2 |
| בָּבֶ֕ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 51:33 | 2 |
| בָּבֶ֣ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 34:1 | 2 |
| בָּבֶ֥ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 29:28 | 2 |
| בָּבֶ֥לָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 27:22 | 2 |
| בָּבֶ֧ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 25:21 | 2 |
| בָּבֶל֮ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 25:9 | 2 |
| לְ/בָבֶ֑ל | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:1 | 2 |
| לְ/בָבֶ֜ל | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 14:22 | 2 |
| מִ/בָּבֶ֑ל | Noun, Proper | Ezra 7:9 | 2 |
| מִ/בָּבֶ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Ezra 7:6 | 2 |
| מִ/בָּבֶ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Ezra 1:11 | 2 |
| בָבֶ֔לָ/ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 36:10 | 1 |
| בָבֶ֣ל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 23:23 | 1 |
| בָבֶ֨ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 51:37 | 1 |
| בָבֶ֨לָ/ה֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 12:13 | 1 |
| בְּ/בָבֶ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 48:14 | 1 |
| בְּ/בָבֶ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 29:22 | 1 |
| בְּ/בָבֶ֗ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 51:44 | 1 |
| בָּ֠בֶל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 29:18 | 1 |
| בָּבֶ֔לָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 52:11 | 1 |
| בָּבֶ֖לָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 20:4 | 1 |
| בָּבֶ֗לָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 28:4 | 1 |
| בָּבֶ֡ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 24:1 | 1 |
| בָּבֶל֒ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 51:34 | 1 |
| בָּבֶל֩ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 25:12 | 1 |
| וּ/בָבֶ֗ל | Noun, Proper | Psalms 87:4 | 1 |
| וּ/בָבֶ֞ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 32:5 | 1 |
| וּ/בָבֶ֣ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 20:6 | 1 |
| וּ/בָבֶ֥ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 34:3 | 1 |
| לְ/בָבֶ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 9:1 | 1 |
| לְ/בָבֶ֛ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 29:10 | 1 |
| לְ/בָבֶ֤ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 51:2 | 1 |
| לְ/בָבֶ֥ל | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 51:49 | 1 |
| מִ/בָּבֶ֖לָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 27:16 | 1 |
| מִ/בָּבֶ֡ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 17:24 | 1 |
| מִ/בָּבֶל֮ | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 48:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Babylon). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The Greek form of BABEL; Semitic form Babilu, meaning "The Gate of God." In the Assyrian tablets it means "The city of the dispersion of the tribes." The monumental list of its kings reaches back to B.C. 2300, and includes Khammurabi, or Amraphel (q.v.), the contemporary of Abraham. It stood on the Euphrates, about 200 miles above its junction with the Tigris, which flowed through its midst and divided it into two almost equal parts. The Elamites invaded Chaldea (i.e., Lower Mesopotamia, or Shinar, and Upper Mesopotamia, or Accad, now combined into one) and held it in subjection. At length Khammu-rabi delivered it from the foreign yoke, and founded the new empire of Chaldea (q.v.), making Babylon the capital of the united kingdom. This city gradually grew in extent and grandeur, but in process of time it became subject to Assyria. On the fall of Nineveh (B.C. 606) it threw off the Assyrian yoke, and became the capital of the growing Babylonian empire. Under Nebuchadnezzar it became one of the most splendid cities of the ancient world.
After passing through various vicissitudes the city was occupied by Cyrus, "king of Elam," B.C. 538, who issued a decree permitting the Jews to return to their own land (Ezra 1). It then ceased to be the capital of an empire. It was again and again visited by hostile armies, till its inhabitants were all driven from their homes, and the city became a complete desolation, its very site being forgotten from among men.
On the west bank of the Euphrates, about 50 miles south of Bagdad, there is found a series of artificial mounds of vast extent. These are the ruins of this once famous proud city. These ruins are principally (1) the great mound called Babil by the Arabs. This was probably the noted Temple of Belus, which was a pyramid about 480 feet high. (2) The Kasr (i.e., "the palace"). This was the great palace of Nebuchadnezzar. It is almost a square, each side of which is about 700 feet long. The little town of Hillah, near the site of Babylon, is built almost wholly of bricks taken from this single mound. (3) A lofty mound, on the summit of which stands a modern tomb called Amran ibn-Ali. This is probably the most ancient portion of the remains of the city, and represents the ruins of the famous hanging-gardens, or perhaps of some royal palace. The utter desolation of the city once called "The glory of kingdoms" (Isa. 13:19) was foretold by the prophets (Isa. 13:4-22; Jer. 25:12; 50:2, 3; Dan. 2:31-38).
The Babylon mentioned in 1 Pet. 5:13 was not Rome, as some have thought, but the literal city of Babylon, which was inhabited by many Jews at the time Peter wrote.
In Rev. 14:8; 16:19; 17:5; and 18:2, "Babylon" is supposed to mean Rome, not considered as pagan, but as the prolongation of the ancient power in the papal form. Rome, pagan and papal, is regarded as one power. "The literal Babylon was the beginner and supporter of tyranny and idolatry...This city and its whole empire were taken by the Persians under Cyrus; the Persians were subdued by the Macedonians, and the Macedonians by the Romans; so that Rome succeeded to the power of old Babylon. And it was her method to adopt the worship of the false deities she had conquered; so that by her own act she became the heiress and successor of all the Babylonian idolatry, and of all that was introduced into it by the immediate successors of Babylon, and consequently of all the idolatry of the earth." Rome, or "mystical Babylon," is "that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth" (17:18).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
in the Apocalypse, is the symbolical name by which Rome is denoted. (Revelation 14:8; 17:18) The power of Rome was regarded by the later Jews as was that of Babylon by their forefathers. Comp. (Jeremiah 51:7) with Reve 14:8 The occurrence of this name in (1 Peter 5:13) has given rise to a variety of conjectures, many giving it the same meaning as in the Apocalypse; others refer it to Babylon in Asia, and others still to Babylon in Egypt. The most natural supposition of all is that by Babylon is intended the old Babylon of Assyria, which was largely inhabited by Jews at the time in question.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
same as Babel
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 182 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 233 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 10:10
- 2 Kings 17:24
- 1 Chronicles 9:1
- 2 Chronicles 32:31
- Ezra 1:11
- Esther 2:6
- Psalms 87:4
- Isaiah 13:1
- Jeremiah 20:4
- Ezekiel 12:13
- Daniel 1:1
- Micah 4:10
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
