Word Study · Strong's H894 · Hebrew
בָּבֶל
Babel
baw-bel'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Bâbel
“Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
Rendered in the KJV as
Babel, Babylon.
- 262occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 14 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 61inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 262 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 61
- בָּבֶ֖ל39
- בָּבֶ֔ל37
- בָּבֶל֙19
- בָּבֶֽל׃19
- בָּבֶ֛ל15
- בָּבֶ֑ל14
- בָּבֶֽלָה׃13
- בָּבֶ֜ל10
- בָּבֶ֗ל8
- בָבֶל֙4
- בָבֶ֔ל4
- בָּבֶ֤ל4
and 49 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 12
- Babylon200
- Babylon towards28
- from Babylon12
- to Babylon6
- and Babylon4
- in Babylon4
- Babel2
- for Babylon2
- [are] in Babylon1
- from Babylon towards1
- O Babylon1
- on Babylon1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- proper noun (a name)203
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)28
- preposition + proper noun (a name)26
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)4
- preposition + proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpl · 203
- HNpl/Sd · 28
- HR/Npl · 26
- HC/Npl · 4
- HR/Npl/Sd · 1
All 262, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Jeremiah169 of 262 · 65%
- 2 Kings32 of 262 · 12%
- Ezekiel20 of 262 · 8%
- Isaiah13 of 262 · 5%
- 2 Chronicles9 of 262 · 3%
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Genesis2 occurrences
- Genesis 10:10בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.here: Babel
- Genesis 11:9בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.here: Babel
2 Kings32 occurrences
- 2 Kings 17:24מִבָּבֶ֡לmibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.here: from Babylon
- 2 Kings 17:30בָבֶ֗לvavelproper noun (a name)The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 20:12בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 20:14מִבָּבֶֽל׃mibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”here: from Babylon
- 2 Kings 20:17בָּבֶ֑לָהbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.here: Babylon towards
- 2 Kings 20:18בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 24:1בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 24:7בָּבֶ֗לbavelproper noun (a name)Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 24:10בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 24:11בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 24:12בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 24:12בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 24:15בָּבֶ֑לָהbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- 2 Kings 24:15בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- 2 Kings 24:16בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)The king of Babylon also brought into exile to Babylon all seven thousand men of valor and a thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths—all strong and fit for battle.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 24:16בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)The king of Babylon also brought into exile to Babylon all seven thousand men of valor and a thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths—all strong and fit for battle.here: Babylon towards
- 2 Kings 24:17בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 24:20בָּבֶֽל׃ סbavelproper noun (a name)For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:1בָּבֶ֜לbavelproper noun (a name)So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:6בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:7בָּבֶֽל׃ סbavelproper noun (a name)And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:8בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:8בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:11בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:13בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- 2 Kings 25:20בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:21בָּבֶ֧לbavelproper noun (a name)There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:22בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over the people he had left behind in the land of Judah.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:23בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:24בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)And Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you.”here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:27בָּבֶ֜לbavelproper noun (a name)On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.here: Babylon
- 2 Kings 25:28בְּבָבֶֽל׃bevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.here: in Babylon
2 Chronicles9 occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 32:31בָּבֶ֗לbavelproper noun (a name)And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.here: Babylon
- 2 Chronicles 33:11בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- 2 Chronicles 36:6בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.here: Babylon
- 2 Chronicles 36:6בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- 2 Chronicles 36:7לְבָבֶ֑לlevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.here: to Babylon
- 2 Chronicles 36:7בְּבָבֶֽל׃bevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.here: in Babylon
- 2 Chronicles 36:10בָבֶ֔לָהvavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.here: Babylon towards
- 2 Chronicles 36:18בָבֶֽל׃vavelproper noun (a name)who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.here: Babylon
- 2 Chronicles 36:20בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.here: Babylon
Ezra6 occurrences
- Ezra 1:11מִבָּבֶ֖לmibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.here: from Babylon
- Ezra 2:1בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,here: Babylon
- Ezra 2:1לְבָבֶ֑לlevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,here: to Babylon
- Ezra 7:6מִבָּבֶ֔לmibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.here: from Babylon
- Ezra 7:9מִבָּבֶ֑לmibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)He had begun the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for the gracious hand of his God was upon him.here: from Babylon
- Ezra 8:1מִבָּבֶֽל׃ סmibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:here: from Babylon
Nehemiah2 occurrences
- Nehemiah 7:6בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,here: Babylon
- Nehemiah 13:6בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the kinghere: Babylon
Psalms3 occurrences
- Psalms 87:4וּבָבֶ֗לuvavelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)“I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me— along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush— when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”here: and Babylon
- Psalms 137:1בָּבֶ֗לbavelproper noun (a name)By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.here: Babylon
- Psalms 137:8בָּבֶ֗לbavelproper noun (a name)O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.here: Babylon
Isaiah13 occurrences
- Isaiah 13:1בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:here: Babylon
- Isaiah 13:19בָבֶל֙vavelproper noun (a name)And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.here: Babylon
- Isaiah 14:4בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!here: Babylon
- Isaiah 14:22לְבָבֶ֜לlevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.here: to Babylon
- Isaiah 21:9בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”here: Babylon
- Isaiah 39:1בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness and recovery.here: Babylon
- Isaiah 39:3מִבָּבֶֽל׃mibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”here: from Babylon
- Isaiah 39:6בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.here: Babylon
- Isaiah 39:7בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”here: Babylon
- Isaiah 43:14בָבֶ֗לָהvavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring them all as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.here: Babylon towards
- Isaiah 47:1בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.here: Babylon
- Isaiah 48:14בְּבָבֶ֔לbevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.here: on Babylon
- Isaiah 48:20מִבָּבֶל֮mibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”here: from Babylon
Jeremiah169 occurrences
- Jeremiah 20:4בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 20:4בָּבֶ֖לָהbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 20:5בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 20:6וּבָבֶ֣לuvavelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’”here: and Babylon
- Jeremiah 21:2בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)“Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 21:4בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 21:7בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 21:10בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 22:25בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 24:1בָּבֶ֡לbavelproper noun (a name)After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 24:1בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 25:1בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 25:9בָּבֶל֮bavelproper noun (a name)behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 25:11בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 25:12בָּבֶל֩bavelproper noun (a name)But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:6בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:8בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:8בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:9בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:11בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:12בָּבֶ֗לbavelproper noun (a name)And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:13בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:14בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say, ‘You must not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying to you a lie.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:16מִבָּבֶ֖לָהmibavelahpreposition + proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie.here: from Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 27:17בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:18בָּבֶֽלָה׃ פbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not be taken to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 27:20בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 27:20בָּבֶ֑לָהbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 27:22בָּבֶ֥לָהbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)‘They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’”here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 28:2בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 28:3בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 28:3בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 28:4בָּבֶ֗לָהbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 28:4בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 28:6מִבָּבֶ֖לmibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)“Amen!” Jeremiah said. “May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.here: from Babylon
- Jeremiah 28:11בָּבֶ֗לbavelproper noun (a name)And in the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, “This is what the LORD says: ‘In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations.’” At this, Jeremiah the prophet went on his way.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 28:14בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.’”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 29:1בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 29:3בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)The letter was entrusted to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It stated:here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 29:3בָּבֶ֥לָהbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)The letter was entrusted to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It stated:here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 29:4בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 29:10לְבָבֶ֛לlevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.here: for Babylon
- Jeremiah 29:15בָּבֶֽלָה׃ סbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 29:20בָּבֶֽלָה׃ סbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 29:21בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 29:22בְּבָבֶ֖לbevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’here: [are] in Babylon
- Jeremiah 29:22בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 29:28בָּבֶ֥לbavelproper noun (a name)For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 32:2בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 32:3בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 32:4בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 32:5וּבָבֶ֞לuvavelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”here: and Babylon
- Jeremiah 32:28בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 32:36בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 34:1בָּבֶ֣ל׀bavelproper noun (a name)This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 34:2בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 34:3בָּבֶ֜לbavelproper noun (a name)And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you will go to Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 34:3וּבָבֶ֥לuvavelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you will go to Babylon.here: and Babylon
- Jeremiah 34:7בָּבֶ֗לbavelproper noun (a name)as the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah—against Lachish and Azekah. For these were the only fortified cities remaining in Judah.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 34:21בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 35:11בָּבֶל֮bavelproper noun (a name)So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 36:29בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 37:1בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 37:17בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 37:19בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 38:3בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)This is what the LORD says: This city will surely be delivered into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 38:17בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 38:18בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. They will burn it down, and you yourself will not escape their grasp.’”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 38:22בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you— those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 38:23בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 39:1בָּבֶ֤לbavelproper noun (a name)In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 39:3בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Then all the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-sarsekim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 39:3בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)Then all the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-sarsekim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 39:5בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 39:6בָּבֶ֜לbavelproper noun (a name)There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 39:6בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 39:7בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 39:9בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 39:11בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had given orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, saying,here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 39:13בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)So Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the captains of the king of Babylonhere: Babylon
- Jeremiah 40:1בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 40:4בָבֶ֗לvavelproper noun (a name)But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 40:4בָבֶ֖לvavelproper noun (a name)But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 40:5בָּבֶ֜לbavelproper noun (a name)But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 40:7בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)When all the commanders and men of the armies in the field heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women, and children who were the poorest of the land and had not been exiled to Babylon,here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 40:7בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)When all the commanders and men of the armies in the field heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women, and children who were the poorest of the land and had not been exiled to Babylon,here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 40:9בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 40:11בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them,here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 41:2בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Then Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 41:18בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)to escape the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of the Chaldeans because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 42:11בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear; do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from him.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 43:3בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)Rather, Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, so that they may put us to death or exile us to Babylon!”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 43:10בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 44:30בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 46:2בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 46:13בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)This is the word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 46:26בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 49:28בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: “Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 49:30בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:1בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:2בָבֶ֜לvavelproper noun (a name)“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:8בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:9בָּבֶ֜לbavelproper noun (a name)For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:13בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:14בָּבֶ֤ל׀bavelproper noun (a name)Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:16מִבָּבֶ֔לmibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.here: from Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:17בָּבֶֽל׃ סbavelproper noun (a name)Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:18בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:23בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:24בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.here: O Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:28בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:29בָּבֶ֣ל׀bavelproper noun (a name)Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:34בָבֶֽל׃vavelproper noun (a name)Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:35בָבֶ֔לvavelproper noun (a name)A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:42בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:43בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)The king of Babylon has heard the report, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:45בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 50:46בָבֶ֔לvavelproper noun (a name)At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:1בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:2לְבָבֶ֤ל׀levavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.here: to Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:6בָּבֶ֗לbavelproper noun (a name)Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:7בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:8בָבֶ֖לvavelproper noun (a name)Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:9בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:11בָּבֶ֥לbavelproper noun (a name)Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD— vengeance for His temple.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:12בָּבֶ֜לbavelproper noun (a name)Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:12בָבֶֽל׃vavelproper noun (a name)Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:24לְבָבֶ֜לlevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.here: to Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:29בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:29בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:30בָבֶ֜לvavelproper noun (a name)The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:31בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:33בָּבֶ֕לbavelproper noun (a name)For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:34בָּבֶל֒bavelproper noun (a name)“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:35בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:37בָבֶ֨ל׀vavelproper noun (a name)Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:41בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:42בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:44בְּבָבֶ֗לbevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.here: in Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:44בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:47בָבֶ֔לvavelproper noun (a name)Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:48בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the LORD.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:49בָּבֶ֕לbavelproper noun (a name)“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:49לְבָבֶ֥לlevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.here: for Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:53בָבֶל֙vavelproper noun (a name)Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:54מִבָּבֶ֑לmibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!here: from Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:55בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:56בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)For a destroyer is coming against her— against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:58בָּבֶ֤לbavelproper noun (a name)This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:59בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:60בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:60בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:61בָבֶ֔לvavelproper noun (a name)And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 51:64בָּבֶ֤לbavelproper noun (a name)Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:3בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:4בָּבֶ֜לbavelproper noun (a name)So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:9בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:10בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:11בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:11בָּבֶ֔לָהbavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 52:12בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:12בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:15בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:17בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- Jeremiah 52:26בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:27בָּבֶ֧לbavelproper noun (a name)There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:31בָּבֶ֜לbavelproper noun (a name)On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.here: Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:32בְּבָבֶֽל׃bevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.here: in Babylon
- Jeremiah 52:34בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.here: Babylon
Ezekiel20 occurrences
- Ezekiel 12:13בָבֶ֙לָה֙vavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.here: Babylon towards
- Ezekiel 17:12בָּבֶ֤לbavelproper noun (a name)“Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 17:12בָּבֶֽלָה׃bavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)“Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.here: Babylon towards
- Ezekiel 17:16בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 17:20בָבֶ֗לָהvavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.here: Babylon towards
- Ezekiel 19:9בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 21:19בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same land. And make a signpost where the road branches off to each city.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 21:21בָּבֶ֜לbavelproper noun (a name)For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 23:15בָבֶל֙vavelproper noun (a name)wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 23:17בָבֶל֙vavelproper noun (a name)Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 23:23בָבֶ֣לvavelproper noun (a name)the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them—all desirable young men, governors and commanders, officers and men of renown, mounted on horses.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 24:2בָּבֶל֙bavelproper noun (a name)“Son of man, write down today’s date, for on this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 26:7בָּבֶ֛לbavelproper noun (a name)For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 29:18בָּ֠בֶלbavelproper noun (a name)“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 29:19בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This will be the wages for his army.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 30:10בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)This is what the Lord GOD says: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 30:24בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 30:25בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I place My sword in the hand of Babylon’s king, and he wields it against the land of Egypt.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 30:25בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I place My sword in the hand of Babylon’s king, and he wields it against the land of Egypt.here: Babylon
- Ezekiel 32:11בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you!here: Babylon
Zechariah2 occurrences
- Zechariah 2:7בָּבֶֽל׃ סbavelproper noun (a name)“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”here: Babylon
- Zechariah 6:10מִבָּבֶֽל׃mibavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)“Take an offering from the exiles—from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon—and go that same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.here: from Babylon