{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H894",
  "lemma": "בָּבֶל",
  "transliteration": "Bâbel",
  "definition": "Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire",
  "kjv": "Babel, Babylon.",
  "occurrences": 261,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H1101",
      "lemma": "בָּלַל",
      "transliteration": "bâlal",
      "meaning": "to overflow",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H1101"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "בָּבֶ֫ל 262 n.pr.loc. Babel, Babylon"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 10:10",
      "text": "The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/10?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 11:9",
      "text": "Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 17:24",
      "text": "The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/17?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 17:30",
      "text": "The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/17?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 20:12",
      "text": "At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/20?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 20:14",
      "text": "Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/20?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 20:17",
      "text": "‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/20?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 20:18",
      "text": "‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/20?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 24:1",
      "text": "In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/24?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 24:7",
      "text": "The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/24?v=7"
    }
  ],
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