Bavel בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל

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Bavel
בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל
Transliterationbavel
Strong's numberH894
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechplace name
GlossBabylon
Occurrences262 in 233 verses
Most frequent inJeremiah (149)

Bavel (Hebrew בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל, Strong's H894) is a place name in the Old Testament, glossed “Babylon”. It occurs 262 times.

Definition

§ Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)"
Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVbabylon (249), babylon's (8), babel (2)
BSBbabylon (238), babylon's (6), over babylon (2), against babylon (2), babel (1), people from babylon (1), are in babylon (1), away to babylon (1), o babylon (1), because of babylon (1)

Verses

Every verse with Bavel, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Psalms

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Micah

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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