TBESH · H0894
בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל · ba.vel · Babylon
§ Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)" Babel or Babylon, the ancient site and/or capital of Babylonia (modern Hillah) situated on the Euphrates
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ba.vel H894
בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל (ba.vel) means “Babylon” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל Hebrew · H894 262 tagged occurrences in 233 verses
Pronunciation guide: baw-bel' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H1101 (בָּלַל); confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
KJV glosses: Babel, Babylon.
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How translators render H894
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of babylon | 137 |
| to babylon | 44 |
| babylon | 33 |
| from babylon | 11 |
| in babylon | 10 |
| of babylons | 4 |
| against babylon | 2 |
| and babylon | 2 |
| babylons | 2 |
| over babylon | 2 |
| are in babylon | 1 |
| away to babylon | 1 |
| babel | 1 |
| because of babylon | 1 |
| comes from babylon | 1 |
| o babylon | 1 |
| people from babylon | 1 |
| where | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of babylon | 148 |
| to babylon | 19 |
| from babylon | 12 |
| against babylon | 9 |
| babylon | 8 |
| him to babylon | 8 |
| of babylons | 8 |
| into babylon | 6 |
| unto babylon | 6 |
| upon babylon | 4 |
| and babylon | 3 |
| in babylon | 3 |
| them to babylon | 3 |
| at babylon | 2 |
| how is babylon | 2 |
| of them to babylon | 2 |
| with him in babylon | 2 |
| with me into babylon | 2 |
| and the babylonians | 1 |
| babel | 1 |
| by babylon | 1 |
| for babylon | 1 |
| not to babylon | 1 |
| o babylon | 1 |
| of the babylonians | 1 |
| on babylon | 1 |
| so at babylon | 1 |
| the babylonians | 1 |
| them with him to babylon | 1 |
| though babylon | 1 |
| thus shall babylon | 1 |
| was babel | 1 |
| with me from babylon | 1 |
Verses containing H894
Page 1 of 5. 233 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 10:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Read word by word - Genesis 11:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 17:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
Read word by word - 2 Kings 20:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 20:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 20:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 20:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:12
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:15
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:16
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 24:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:8
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 25:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 9:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 32:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 33:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 36:6
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 36:7
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 36:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 36:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 36:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezra 1:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Read word by word - Ezra 2:1
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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,
Read word by word - Ezra 7:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezra 7:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Ezra 8:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
Read word by word - Nehemiah 7:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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,
Read word by word - Nehemiah 13:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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 king
Read word by word - Esther 2:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.
Read word by word - Psalms 87:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.’”
Read word by word - Psalms 137:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Read word by word - Psalms 137:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
Read word by word - Isaiah 13:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
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