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.
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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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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 Manich??an Heresy, and on his Origin.
... Founder of the Manich??an Heresy, and on his Origin. ... a disciple; and he having proceeded
to Babylon, which the ... boy about seven years old whose name was Cubricus ...
/.../chapter xxii manes the founder of.htm

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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Resources
What is the significance of Babylon in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

What is the whore of Babylon / mystery Babylon? | GotQuestions.org

What is the significance of the Babylonian Empire in biblical history? | GotQuestions.org

Babylon: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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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

Babylon: Ambassadors of, Sent to Hezekiah

Babylon: Armies of, Described

Babylon: As a Power Was: An Instrument of God's Vengeance on Other Nations

Babylon: As a Power Was: Arrogant

Babylon: As a Power Was: Covetous

Babylon: As a Power Was: Cruel and Destructive

Babylon: As a Power Was: Grand and Stately

Babylon: As a Power Was: Oppressive

Babylon: As a Power Was: Secure and Self-Confident

Babylon: Babylon the Capital of Called Babylon the Great

Babylon: Babylon the Capital of Called Beauty of Chaldees

Babylon: Babylon the Capital of Called the City of Merchants

Babylon: Babylon the Capital of Called the Glory of Kingdoms

Babylon: Babylon the Capital of Called the Golden City

Babylon: Babylon the Capital of Enlarged by Nebuchadnezzar

Babylon: Babylon the Capital of Its Antiquity

Babylon: Babylon the Capital of Surrounded With a Great Wall and Fortified

Babylon: Babylon the Chief Province of

Babylon: City of Built by Nimrod

Babylon: City of Capital of the Kingdom of Babylon

Babylon: City of Gates of

Babylon: City of in the Land of Shinar

Babylon: City of Peter Writes From

Babylon: City of Prophecies Concerning

Babylon: City of Splendor of

Babylon: City of Tower of

Babylon: City of Walled

Babylon: Composed of Many Nations

Babylon: Destroyed by the Medes

Babylon: Empire of a Limited Monarchy

Babylon: Empire of Armies of, Invade Ancient Canaan

Babylon: Empire of At the Time of Ahasuerus

Babylon: Empire of Called Land of Shinar

Babylon: Empire of Colonists From, Sent to Samaria

Babylon: Empire of Conquest of Egypt By

Babylon: Empire of Divisions of

Babylon: Empire of Extent of, at the Time of Nebuchadnezzar

Babylon: Empire of Founded by Nimrod

Babylon: Empire of Jews Carried To

Babylon: Empire of Judah

Babylon: Empire of Merathaim

Babylon: Empire of Prophecies of Conquests By

Babylon: Empire of Prophetic Denunciations Against

Babylon: Empire of Samaria

Babylon: Empire of Sheshach

Babylon: Empire of Tyrannical

Babylon: Figurative

Babylon: Formerly a Part of Mesopotamia

Babylon: Founded by the Assyrians, and a Part of Their Empire

Babylon: Governed by Kings

Babylon: Grief of the Jews In

Babylon: Inhabitants of Addicted to Magic

Babylon: Inhabitants of Idolatrous

Babylon: Inhabitants of Profane and Sacrilegious

Babylon: Inhabitants of Wicked

Babylon: Languages Spoken In

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Besieged and Took Jerusalem

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Besieged Jerusalem

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Burned Jerusalem

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Made Jehoiakim Tributary

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Made Zedekiah King

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Rebelled Against by Zedekiah

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Spoiled and Burned the Temple

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Spoiled the Temple

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Took Jehoiachin Captive to Babylon

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar King of Took Zedekiah Captive to Babylon

Babylon: Origin of

Babylon: Origin of the Name

Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Captivity of the Jews By

Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Conquests By

Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Destruction of

Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Perpetual Desolation of

Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Preaching of the Gospel In

Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Restoration of the Jews From

Babylon: Presidents Placed Over

Babylon: Remarkable For: Antiquity

Babylon: Remarkable For: Commerce

Babylon: Remarkable For: Manufacture of Garments

Babylon: Remarkable For: Military Power

Babylon: Remarkable For: National Greatness

Babylon: Remarkable For: Naval Power

Babylon: Remarkable For: Wealth

Babylon: Remarkable For: Wisdom of Senators

Babylon: Represented by a Great Eagle

Babylon: Represented by a Head of Gold

Babylon: Represented by a Lion With Eagle's Wings

Babylon: Restoration of the Jews From

Babylon: Revolt of the Jews From, and Their Punishment Illustrated

Babylon: Situated Beyond the Euphrates

Babylon: The Gospel Preached In

Babylon: The Jews Exhorted to be Subject To, and Settle In

Babylon: Treatment of the Jews In

Babylon: Watered by the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris

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