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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בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל (ba.vel) means “Babylon” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: baw-bel' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
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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from H1101 (בָּלַל); confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
KJV glosses: Babel, Babylon.
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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 |
Page 2 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.
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Read word by wordyou will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordLook, 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!”
Read word by wordAt 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.
Read word by wordThen 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.”
Read word by wordThe 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 wordAnd 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 wordThus 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.
Read word by word“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
Read word by wordCome 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.
Read word by wordLeave 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!”
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.’”
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordthis 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.
Read word by word‘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.’
Read word by wordFor 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.’
Read word by wordIn 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.
Read word by wordAfter 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.
Read word by wordThis 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.
Read word by wordbehold, 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.
Read word by wordAnd this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordAs 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.’
Read word by wordBut 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.”
Read word by wordAnd 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!
Read word by wordWhy 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?
Read word by wordDo 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.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordDo not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
Read word by wordIf 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.
Read word by wordwhich 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.
Read word by word‘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.’”
Read word by word“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Read word by wordWithin 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.’”
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordFor 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.’”
Read word by wordThis 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.
Read word by wordThe 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:
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordBecause you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”
Read word by wordSo hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Read word by wordThis 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.
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