Word

בָּבֶל

Bâbel · H894 · Hebrew · proper noun · 262 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 places

Babylonfirst named in 2 Kings 17:24255 verses
Babyloniafirst named in Ezra 1:116 verses
Babelfirst named in Genesis 10:102 verses

Meanings

Babel

A town in Mesopotamia founded by Nimrod, site of the tower of Babel and capital of the Chaldean empire

Examples
Genesis 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 11:9 Therefore it was named Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
2 Kings 17:24 Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 3 groups

מֶלֶךְking 1
צְבִיbeauty 1
תִּפְאָרָהglory, beauty 1

What it doesIt is the subject

10 occurrences in 6 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 4
נָפַלto fall 2
לָכַדto capture, to take, to catch 1
עָלָהto go up 1
שָׁקַעto sink 1
תָּפַשׂto take hold 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 4 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1
זָכַרto remember 1
רָפָאto heal 1
שָׁדַדto devastate, to destroy 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כּוֹסcup 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 3 groups

חָמָסviolence, wrong 1
מְזִמָּהplan 1
שְׁאֵרflesh, relative 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

44 occurrences in 6 groups

מִןfrom 20
עַלon, upon, over, against 17
לto/for 14
אֵלto, toward 11
בin/on/with 9
עַדto, as far as, until 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

156 occurrences in 13 groups

מֶלֶךְking 131
בַּתdaughter 5
בֵּןson 3
חוֹמָהwall 3
יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 3
תָּוֶךְmiddle 3
Other words · 7 groups that occur once or twice (8) 8

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

בַּבֶל Babel · H895 · Babylon: בַּבֶל (Babel, H895) בַּבֶל is a variant spelling of the same name as בָּבֶל (Bâbel, H894) בָּבֶל (Hebrew/Aramaic or alternate form), referring to the same referent and interchangeable in sense.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Locations003001010: בָּבֶל names Babylon (Babel), as at Genesis 11:9 — "it was named Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth" — and 2 Kings 20:12, which names "Berodach-baladan... king of Babylon."

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H894. Babel בָּבֶ֫ל262 proper name, of a location Babel, Babylon (in Assyrian written…

H894. Babel
בָּבֶ֫ל262 proper name, of a location Babel, Babylon (in Assyrian written Bab-ilu, gate of god DlPa 212, compare on other hand JenKosmol. 498) — with ָ ה locative בָּבֶ֫לָה Eze 12:13 +, בָּבֶ֑לָה 2Ki 20:17 +?מִבָּבֶ֫לָה Jer 27:16; — the ancient capital of Babylonia, modern Hillah, situated on Euphrates, in long. approximately 440 30° east, and latitude approximately 320 50° north; Gen 10:10; Gen 11:9 (where name connected with בלל confuse, confound), both J, not elsewhere in Hexateuch; 2Ki 17:24 2Ki 17:31t. 2Kings; 18t. Chronicles; Est 2:6; late Psa 87:4; Psa 137:1; Psa 137:8; Isa2; Isa3, namely Isa 13:1, Isa 13:19; Isa 14:4, Isa 14:22; Isa 21:9; Isa 39:1, Isa 39:3, Isa 39:6, Isa 39:7; Isa 43:14; Isa 47:1; Isa 48:14, Isa 48:20; Mic 4:10 (but here probably not original, compare RSProph. vii. n. 5 & references) Zec 2:11; Zec 6:10; Dan 1:1; Eze 12:13 Eze 12:19t. Ezekiel; Jer 20:4 (twice in verse); Jer 20:5-6, 165t. Jeremiah — note especially בּ ׳אֶרֶץ Jer 50:28; also of land & people = realm, particular in בּ ׳מֶלֶךְ 2Ki 20:12 of Merodach Baladan; 2Ki 20:18; 2Ki 24:1, 2Ki 24:7, 2Ki 24:11, 2Ki 24:12 (twice in verse) + often of Nebuchadrezzar; 2Ki 25:27 = Jer 52:31 compare Jer 52:34 of Evil-Merodach; Neh 13:6 of Artaxerxes; the city personified as בָּבֶל בַּת Isa 47:1; Jer 50:42. (See DlPa 212 COT Gen 11:9 KG95.)
בָּבֶל proper name, of a location Babylon (Biblical Hebrew id.); — Dan 2:12 Dan 2:15t. Daniel; 9t. Ezra.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Locations258 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0