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Lexicon :: Strong's G897 - babylōn

Aa
Βαβυλών
Transliteration
babylōn (Key)
Pronunciation
bab-oo-lone'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin בָּבֶל (H894)
Dictionary Aids

TDNT Reference: 1:514,89

Strong’s Definitions

Βαβυλών Babylṓn, bab-oo-lone'; of Hebrew origin (H894); Babylon, the capitol of Chaldæa (literally or figuratively (as a type of tyranny)):—Babylon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G897 in the following manner: Babylon (12x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G897 in the following manner: Babylon (12x).

  1. Babylon = "confusion"

    1. a very large and famous city, the residence of the Babylonian kings, situated on both banks of the Euphrates. Cyrus had formerly captured it, but Darius Hystaspis threw down its gates and walls, and Xerxes destroyed the temple of Belis. At length the city was reduced to almost solitude, the population having been drawn off by the neighbouring Seleucia, built on the Tigris by Seleucus Nicanor.

    2. of the territory of Babylonia

    3. allegorically, of Rome as the most corrupt seat of idolatry and the enemy of Christianity

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Βαβυλών Babylṓn, bab-oo-lone'; of Hebrew origin (H894); Babylon, the capitol of Chaldæa (literally or figuratively (as a type of tyranny)):—Babylon.
STRONGS G897:
Βαβυλών, -ῶνος, ἡ, (Hebrew בָּבֶל from בָּלַל to confound, according to Genesis 11:9; cf. Aeschylus Pers. 52 Βαβυλὼν δ’ ἡ πολύχρυσος πάμμικτον ὄχλον πέμπει σύρδην. But more correctly, as it seems, from בַּל בָּאב the gate i. e. the court or city of Belus [Assyrian Bâb-Il the Gate of God; (perhaps of Il, the supreme God); cf. Schrader, Keilinschr. u. d. Alt. Test. 2te Aufl., p. 127f; Oppert in the Zeitsch. d. Deutsch. Morg. Gesellschaft, viii., p. 595]), Babylon, formerly a very celebrated and large city, the residence of the Babylonian kings, situated on both banks of the Euphrates. Cyrus had formerly captured it, but Darius Hystaspis threw down its gates and walls, and Xerxes destroyed [?] the temple of Belus. At length the city was reduced almost to a solitude, the population having been drawn off by the neighboring Seleucia, built on the Tigris by Seleucus Nicanor. [Cf. Prof. Rawlinson in B. D. under the word and his Herodotus, vol. i. Essays vi. and viii., vol. ii. Essay iv.] The name is used in the N. T.
1. of the city itself: Acts 7:43; 1 Peter 5:13 (where some have understood Babylon, a small town in Egypt, to be referred to; but in opposition cf. Mayerhoff, Einl. in die petrin. Schriften, p. 126ff; [cf. 3 at the end below]).
2. of the territory, Babylonia: Matthew 1:11f, 17; [often so in Greek writings].
3. allegorically, of Rome as the most corrupt seat of idolatry and the enemy of Christianity: Revelation 14:8 [here Rec.elz Βαβουλών]; Rev 16:19; 17:5; 18:2,10,21 (in the opinion of some 1 Peter 5:13 also; [cf. 1 at the end, above]).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
11:9
Matthew
1:11; 1:17
Acts
7:43
1 Peter
5:13; 5:13
Revelation
14:8; 16:19; 17:5; 18:2; 18:10; 18:21

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G897 matches the Greek Βαβυλών (babylōn),
which occurs 242 times in 221 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 10:10–Est 2:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:10 - And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30 - And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12 - At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - 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, even from Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17 - Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:18 - And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:1 - In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 - At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:11 - And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:17 - And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 - And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6 - Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:7 - And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 - Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - And the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:13 - And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Jehovah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20 - And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21 - And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:22 - And as for the people that were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:23 - Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24 - And Gedaliah sware to them and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not because of the servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:28 - and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:1 - So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their transgression.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31 - Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11 - Wherefore Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:6 - Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:7 - Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - And at the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Jehovah, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18 - And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11 - All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1 - Now these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and that returned unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17 - Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure-house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:1 - Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:6 - this Ezra went up from Babylon. And he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:16 - and all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:1 - Now these are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6 - These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and that returned unto Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6 - But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went unto the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the king,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:6 - who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives that had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

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