Bible Names

Babel: meaning of the name

Babel means “confusion; mixture.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Babel in Hebrew and Greek

בָּבֶל H894

Bâbel (baw-bel') — Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire

from H1101 (בָּלַל); confusion;

Places named Babel

Babel in Scripture

“Babel” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 10:10

    And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

  • Genesis 11:9

    Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.