Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H895
בַּבֶל
Babelbaw-bel'
Babylon
25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H895is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H895
{Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire}
The King James renders it: Babylon.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Babel is rendered "Babylon". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 5:12But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this temple and carried away the people to Babylon.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this temple and carried away the people to Babylon.
Ezra 5:12בָּבֶ֖ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Babylon21
- in Babylon2
- to Babylon2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּבְלִי | Babli | Babylonian | Uses1 |
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בָבֶ֑ל4
- בָּבֶ֔ל3
- בָבֶֽל׃3
- בָּבֶ֑ל2
- בָּבֶֽל׃2
- בְּבָבֶל֒1
- בְּבָבֶֽל׃1
- בָבֶל֙1
- בָבֶ֖ל1
- בָבֶ֗ל1
- בָבֶ֔ל1
- בָּבֶ֣ל1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)21ANpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)4AR/Npl
Ezra
nine uses
But since our fathers angered the God of heaven, He delivered them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this temple and carried away the people to Babylon.
- בָּבֶ֖לbavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
- לְבָבֶֽל׃ סlevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Babylon
In his first year, however, Cyrus king of Babylon issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
- בָבֶ֑לvavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
He also removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken and carried there from the temple in Jerusalem. King Cyrus gave these articles to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor
- בָבֶ֑לvavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
- בָבֶ֔לvavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
Now, therefore, if it pleases the king, let a search be made of the royal archives in Babylon to see if King Cyrus did indeed issue a decree to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.
- בְּבָבֶל֒bevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Babylon
Thus King Darius ordered a search of the archives stored in the treasury of Babylon.
- בְּבָבֶֽל׃bevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Babylon
Furthermore, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, must also be returned to the temple in Jerusalem and deposited in the house of God.
- לְבָבֶ֑לlevavelpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Babylon
together with all the silver and gold you may find in all the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests to the house of their God in Jerusalem.
- בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
Daniel
sixteen uses
This response made the king so furious with anger that he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- בָבֶֽל׃vavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
When Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon, Daniel replied with discretion and tact.
- בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
urging them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
- בָבֶֽל׃vavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”
- בָבֶ֑לvavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
- בָבֶל֙vavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many generous gifts. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.
- בָּבֶ֑לbavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
- בָבֶֽל׃vavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
And at Daniel’s request, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to manage the province of Babylon, while Daniel remained in the king’s court.
- בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
- בָּבֶֽל׃bavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
But there are some Jews you have appointed to manage the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—who have ignored you, O king, and have refused to serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.”
- בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
- בָּבֶֽל׃ פbavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
So I issued a decree that all the wise men of Babylon be brought before me to interpret the dream for me.
- בָבֶ֑לvavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
Twelve months later, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,
- בָבֶ֖לvavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
- בָּבֶ֣לbavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
- בָבֶ֗לvavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.
- בָּבֶ֔לbavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Babylon
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.