בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל

ba.velBabylon
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place262 occurrences14 books233 verses
This is the name of the place Babylon: Ancient Mesopotamian city, capital of Babylonian Empire, site of the Tower of Babel.

Definition

from H1101; confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
Traditional renderings: Babel, Babylon.

Glossary entries

Babylon, Babylonia Babel Pekod Sheshach Merathaim

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

262 total
  1. Genesis 10:10בָּבֶ֔ל · in Babylon
    His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  2. Genesis 11:9בָּבֶ֔ל · Babel
    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.
  3. 2 Kings 17:24מִבָּבֶ֡ל · people from Babylon
    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.
  4. 2 Kings 17:30בָבֶ֗ל · of Babylon
    The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
  5. 2 Kings 20:12בָּבֶ֛ל · of Babylon
    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.
  6. 2 Kings 20:14מִבָּבֶֽל׃ · from Babylon
    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.”
  7. 2 Kings 20:17בָּבֶ֑לָה · to Babylon
    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.
  8. 2 Kings 20:18בָּבֶֽל׃ · of Babylon
    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.”
  9. 2 Kings 24:1בָּבֶ֑ל · of Babylon
    During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
  10. 2 Kings 24:7בָּבֶ֗ל · of Babylon
    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.
  11. 2 Kings 24:10בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
  12. 2 Kings 24:11בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
  13. 2 Kings 24:12 (2×)בָּבֶ֔ל · of Babylon; בָּבֶ֔ל · of Babylon
    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.
  14. 2 Kings 24:15 (2×)בָּבֶ֑לָה · to Babylon; בָּבֶֽלָה׃ · to Babylon
    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.
  15. 2 Kings 24:16 (2×)בָּבֶ֛ל · of Babylon; בָּבֶֽלָה׃ · to Babylon
    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.
  16. 2 Kings 24:17בָּבֶ֛ל · of Babylon
    Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
  17. 2 Kings 24:20בָּבֶֽל׃ס · of Babylon
    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.
  18. 2 Kings 25:1בָּבֶ֜ל · of Babylon
    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.
  19. 2 Kings 25:6בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
  20. 2 Kings 25:7בָּבֶֽל׃ס · to Babylon
    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.
  21. 2 Kings 25:8 (2×)בָּבֶ֑ל · over Babylon; בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    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.
  22. 2 Kings 25:11בָּבֶ֔ל · of Babylon
    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.
  23. 2 Kings 25:13בָּבֶֽלָה׃ · to Babylon
    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.
  24. 2 Kings 25:20בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
  25. 2 Kings 25:21בָּבֶ֧ל · of Babylon
    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.
  26. 2 Kings 25:22בָּבֶ֑ל · of Babylon
    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.
  27. 2 Kings 25:23בָּבֶל֙ · of Babylon
    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.
  28. 2 Kings 25:24בָּבֶ֖ל · of Babylon
    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.”
  29. 2 Kings 25:27בָּבֶ֜ל · of Babylon
    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.
  30. 2 Kings 25:28בְּבָבֶֽל׃ · in Babylon
    And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
  31. 1 Chronicles 9:1לְבָבֶ֖ל · to Babylon
    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.
  32. 2 Chronicles 32:31בָּבֶ֗ל · of Babylon
    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.
  33. 2 Chronicles 33:11בָּבֶֽלָה׃ · to Babylon
    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.
  34. 2 Chronicles 36:6 (2×)בָּבֶ֑ל · of Babylon; בָּבֶֽלָה׃ · to Babylon
    Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
  35. 2 Chronicles 36:7 (2×)לְבָבֶ֑ל · to Babylon; בְּבָבֶֽל׃ · in Babylon
    Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
  36. 2 Chronicles 36:10בָבֶ֔לָה · to Babylon
    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.
  37. 2 Chronicles 36:18בָבֶֽל׃ · to Babylon
    …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.
  38. 2 Chronicles 36:20בָּבֶ֑ל · Babylon
    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.
  39. Ezra 1:11מִבָּבֶ֖ל · from Babylon
    In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
  40. Ezra 2:1 (2×)בָּבֶ֖ל; לְבָבֶ֑ל · to Babylon
    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,
  41. Ezra 7:6מִבָּבֶ֔ל · from Babylon
    …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.
  42. Ezra 7:9מִבָּבֶ֑ל · from Babylon
    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.
  43. Ezra 8:1מִבָּבֶֽל׃ס · from Babylon
    These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes: