בָּבֶל
Bâbel · baw-bel'
Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1101 (בָּלַל); confusion;
Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Babel, Babylon.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › the house, what is within › authority, the one who leads
The house, what is within of the house, what is within of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בָּבֶל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
262 occurrences · 262 OT · 0 NT · 61 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of babylon148 · 61%
- to babylon18 · 7%
- him to babylon8 · 3%
- from babylon8 · 3%
- of babylon's8 · 3%
- against babylon8 · 3%
- babylon7 · 3%
- into babylon6 · 2%
- unto babylon6 · 2%
- and babylon3 · 1%
- them to babylon3 · 1%
- of them to babylon2 · 1%
- that were with him in babylon2 · 1%
- at babylon2 · 1%
- in babylon2 · 1%
- with me into babylon2 · 1%
- how is babylon2 · 1%
- upon babylon2 · 1%
- was babel1 · 0%
- babel1 · 0%
- men from babylon1 · 0%
- even from babylon1 · 0%
- with me from babylon1 · 0%
- unto me, even from babylon1 · 0%
- on babylon1 · 0%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.