894 - Babel

Strong's Concordance

Original word: בָּבֶל
Transliteration: Babel
Definition (short): Babylon
Definition (full): Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: perhaps from balal
Definition: an E. Mediterranean empire and its capital city
NASB Translation: Babel (2), Babylon (257), Babylonians* (3).
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From balal; confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire -- Babel, Babylon.

see HEBREW balal

KJV: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
NASB: The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
KJV: Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
NASB: Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
KJV: And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from 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.
NASB: The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sephar-vaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
KJV: And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
NASB: The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
KJV: At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
NASB: At that time Berodach-baladan a son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.