Bible Dictionary: Babylon: Origin of the Name

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Genesis 11:8,9
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Strong's Hebrew

564. Immer -- the name of several Israelites, perhaps also a place ...
... also a place in Babylon. Transliteration: Immer Phonetic Spelling: (im-mare') Short
Definition: Immer. Word Origin from amar Definition the name of several Isr ...
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3846b. Leb Qamay -- "the heart of (those who are) rising up ...
... heart of (those who are) rising up against Me," cryptic name for Chaldea (Babylon).
Transliteration: Leb Qamay Short Definition: Leb-kamai. Word Origin from leb ...
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390. Akkad -- the name of a city in N. Bab.
... Word Origin of foreign origin Definition the name of a ... an unused root probably meaning
to strengthen; a fortress; Accad, a place in Babylon -- Accad ...
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8347. Sheshak -- a name for Bab.
... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition a name for Bab. NASB Word Usage Sheshach
(1), Sheshak (1). ... Name of Babylon -- Sheshach. 8346, 8347. ...
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4850. Merathayim -- perhaps "double rebellion," another name for ...
... Word Origin perhaps from marah Definition perhaps "double rebellion," another name
for Bab. ... bitterness; Merathajim, an epithet of Babylon -- Merathaim. ...
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256. Achab -- "father's brother," a king of Isr., also a false ...
... Word Origin from ach and ab Definition "father's brother," a king ... ie Friend) of
(his) father; Achab, the name of a ... of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon -- Ahab ...
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1121. ben -- son
... Word Origin a prim ... banah; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the ... Lev-)ite,
(anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec ...
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Library

John the Baptist --visit of Jesus to John, and his Abode in the ...
... Babylon had become for some time a true focus of Buddhism ... say, the religion of many
baptisms"the origin of the ... sect of John, and gave it its name, has always ...
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Chapter x
... Our chief difficulty is to determine the correct relation of this account to the
account of the origin of the name Babylon ("confusion"), as set down Genesis 11 ...
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Chapter xi
... "Shinar," though including, perhaps, more than the land of Babylon (cf. ... contracted
to Babel is derived, we have here the actual origin of the name of this ...
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Traditionalism, Its Origin, Character, and Literature - the ...
... Testament, or find in the one the origin of the ... be added that our editions of the
Babylon Talmud contain ... corresponds with a tractate of a similar name in the ...
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Manes, the Founder of the Manichæan Heresy, and on his Origin.
... Founder of the Manichæan Heresy, and on his Origin. ... a disciple; and he having proceeded
to Babylon, which the ... boy about seven years old whose name was Cubricus ...
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Index of Subjects.
... B. Babylon, church in, 492. Babylonish captivity, 255. ... M. Maccabees, family of, 359;
origin of the name, 360. Maccabees, apocryphal books of, 360, seq. ...
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That the Original Language in Use among Men was that which was ...
... Nimrod lived to the time in which Babylon was founded and ... from Misraim, Ham's son,
nor in the name Ethiopians to ... though such is said to be the origin of these ...
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In the Last Chapter we Confined Ourself to the Old Testament, in ...
... the idolatrous systems of the nations had their origin in what ... Babylon was founded
in rebellion against God ... The very name Nimrod gave to his city, proves him to ...
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Index i. Of Subjects
... Boraithas, i.103; in the Babylon Talmud, 104, 105. ... Hellenists, or Grecian Jews,
character of, i.6, 7, 18-22; origin of name, 17; religious views of, 18, 19; ...
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The Deputation from Jerusalem - the Three Sects of the Pharisees ...
... repeat the well-known description, both in the Jerusalem and the Babylon Talmud,
of ... But on none of these principles can the origin of the name of Sadducees ...
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Subtopics

Babylon

Babylon in the New Testament

Babylon in the Old Testament

Babylon was Called: Desert of the Sea

Babylon was Called: Lady of Kingdoms

Babylon was Called: Land of Merathaim

Babylon was Called: Land of Shinar

Babylon was Called: Land of the Chaldeans

Babylon was Called: Sheshach

Babylon with Media and Persia Divided by Darius 120 Provinces

Babylon: A Type of Antichrist