Definition

{Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire}

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H894 (בָּבֶל)

Word family

• בָּבֶל Bâbel

How the KJV renders it

• Babylon

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.