בָּבֶל bavel

Hebrew word for “Babylon” · Strong’s H895 · used 25 times in 21 verses

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Meaning

Aramaic of ba.vel (בָּבֶ֫ל, בָּבֶל "Babylon" H0894);

How it is translated

Glosses given for bavel in context, with how often each is used:

• babylon 25

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Daniel 2 (6), Ezra 5 (4), Daniel 3 (3), Daniel 4 (3), Ezra 6 (2), Ezra 7 (1), Daniel 5 (1), Daniel 7 (1)

Forms

• בבל 21
• לבבל 2
• בבבל 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with bavel more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מֶלֶךְ melekh “king” 16
• דִּי di “that” 17
• חַכִּים chakkim “wise” 7
• בַּיִת bayit “house” 8
• עַל al “since” 9
• מְדִינָה medinah “province” 6
• אֱלָהּ elah “god” 8
• דְּנָה denah “this” 7
• דְּהַב dehav “gold” 6
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 6
• טְעֵם teem “command” 6
• מִן־ min “from” 7

Key verses

The verses using bavel that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Ezra 5:12 — But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who…
• Ezra 5:14 — And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the…
• Ezra 6:1 — Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
• Ezra 6:5 — And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto…
• Daniel 2:12 — For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
• Daniel 2:18 — That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of…
• Daniel 2:48 — Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over…
• Daniel 3:1 — Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in…
• Daniel 3:12 — There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not regarded…
• Daniel 4:30 — The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
• Daniel 5:7 — The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall…
• Daniel 7:1 — In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.