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Lexicon :: Strong's H894 - bāḇel

Aa
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 5 / 5 (Jer 52:9–Zec 6:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:9 - Then they seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon H894 at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he [fn]spoke his judgment on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:10 - Then the king of Babylon H894 slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the [fn]princes of Judah in Riblah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:11 - Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon H894 bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon H894 and put him in prison until the day of his death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:12 -

Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon H894, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who stood before the king of Babylon H894, came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:15 - Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who remained in the city, the [fn]defectors who had defected to the king of Babylon H894, and the rest of the artisans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:17 -

Now the bronze pillars which belonged to the house of Yahweh and the stands and the bronze sea, which were in the house of Yahweh, the Chaldeans shattered and carried all their bronze to Babylon H894.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:26 - And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and led them to the king of Babylon H894 at Riblah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:27 - Then the king of Babylon H894 struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:31 -

Now it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that [fn]Evil-merodach king of Babylon H894, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:32 - and he spoke to him good words, and he set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon H894.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:34 - For his allowance, a continual allowance was given him by the king of Babylon H894, a daily portion all the days of his life until the day of his death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:13 - “I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon H894 in the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:12 - “Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Say, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon H894 came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes, and brought them to him in Babylon H894.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - ‘As I live,’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘Surely in the [fn]country of the king who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, [fn]in Babylon H894 he shall die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:20 - “I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. Then I will bring him to Babylon H894 and enter into judgment with him there regarding the unfaithful act which he has committed against Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:9 -

‘They put him in a cage with hooks

And brought him to the king of Babylon H894;

They brought him in hunting nets

So that his voice would be heard no more

On the mountains of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - “Now as for you, son of man, [fn]make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon H894 to come; both of them will go out of one land. And [fn]make a signpost; [fn]make it at the head of the way to the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:21 - “For the king of Babylon H894 stands at the [fn]parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows; he asks the [fn]household idols; he looks at the liver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15 - girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, in the likeness of the [fn]Babylonians H894 in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - “So the [fn]Babylonians H894 came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. Then she became defiled by them, and her soul became disgusted with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - the [fn]Babylonians H894 and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the [fn]Assyrians with them; desirable choice men, governors and officials, all of them, officers and [fn]men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:2 - “Son of man, write the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon H894 [fn]has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:7 -

For thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894, king of kings, with horses, chariots, horsemen, and an assembly, a great number of people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:18 - “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 made his military force [fn]labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his military force had no wages from Tyre for the [fn]labor that he had [fn]labored against it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:19 - Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894. And he will carry off her [fn]abundance and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his military force.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:10 -

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,

“I will also make the multitude of Egypt cease

By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:24 - ‘For I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon H894 and put My sword in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh so that he will groan before him with the groanings of a wounded man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:25 - ‘Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon H894, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon H894 and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:11 -

For thus says Lord Yahweh, “The sword of the king of Babylon H894 will come upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:1 -

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon H894 came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:10 -

“Writhe and labor to give birth,

Daughter of Zion,

Like a woman in childbirth;

For now you will go out of the city,

Dwell in the field,

And go to Babylon H894.

There you will be delivered;

There Yahweh will redeem you

From the hand of your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:7 - “Woe, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon H894.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10 - “Take an offering from the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah; and you come the same day and come into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon H894.

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