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#0897 Βαβυλών Babulon {bab-oo-lone'}
of Hebrew origin H0894; TDNT - 1:514,89; n pr loc
—Greek Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)
Babylon = "confusion"
1) a very large and famous city, the residence of the Babylonian
kings, situated on both banks of the Euphrates. Cyrus had formerly
captured it, but Darius Hystaspis threw down its gates and walls,
and Xerxes destroyed the temple of Belis. At length the city was
reduced to almost solitude, the population having been drawn off
by the neighbouring Seleucia, built on the Tigris by Seleucus
Nicanor.
2) of the territory of Babylonia
3) allegorically, of Rome as the most corrupt seat of idolatry and the
enemy of Christianity
—Thayer's (New Testament Greek-English Lexicon)
Of Hebrew origin [ H0894]; Babylon, the capital of Chaldaea (literally or figuratively as a type of tyranny):—Babylon.
—Strong's (Greek Dictionary of the New Testament)
- #897.
- Βαβυλω´ν
- Babulōn; of Akk. or., cf. [894]; “gate of god(s),” Babylon, a large city situated astride the Euphrates river:—
- NASB - Babylon(12).
—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries
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