ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝ, βαβυλων
BABYLŌN, babylōn
Sounds Like: bah-by-LOHN
Translations: Babylon
From the root: ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: This is the name of an ancient city, the capital of Babylonia, located on the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia. It is frequently mentioned in the Bible, often symbolizing a place of idolatry, oppression, and confusion. It is used to refer to the literal city or, metaphorically, to a system or power opposed to God.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G0897 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:29
Codex Sinaiticus
- Isaiah — 13:19, 21:9
- Jeremiah — 27:2, 27:23, 27:24, 28:7, 28:37, 28:41, 28:53
- Revelation — 14:8, 16:19, 17:5, 18:2, 18:10, 18:21
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 10:10
- Isaiah — 13:19, 21:9
- Jeremiah — 27:2, 27:23, 27:24, 28:7, 28:8, 28:37, 28:41, 28:53, 28:64
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 4:27
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 4:27
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΒΑΒΥΙ — Babylon
- ΒΑΒΥΛΩ — Babylon
- ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΑ — Babylon
- ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΑΝ — Babylon
- ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΙ — to Babylon, in Babylon
- ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΙΑ — Babylonia
- ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΙΟΣ — Babylonian, a Babylonian
- ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΙΤΙΔΙ — (to) a Babylonian woman, (to) a woman of Babylon
- ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΙΩΝ — of Babylonians, of the Babylonians
- ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΟΙΣ — to Babylon, in Babylon, for Babylon
- ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΟΣ — of Babylon
- ΛΩΝ — Babylon
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