Bible Names

Babylon: meaning of the name

Babylon means “same as Babel.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Babylon in Hebrew and Greek

בָּבֶל H894

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

from H1101 (בָּלַל); confusion;

בַּבֶל H895

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

(Aramaic) corresponding to H894 (בָּבֶל)

Βαβυλών G897

Babylṓn — Babylon, the capitol of Chaldæa (literally or figuratively (as a type of tyranny))

of Hebrew origin (H0894);

Places named Babylon

Babylon in Scripture

“Babylon” appears in 259 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 17:24

    And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

  • 2 Kings 17:30

    And the men of Babylon made Succoth–benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

  • 2 Kings 20:12

    At that time Berodach–baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

  • 2 Kings 20:14

    Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.

  • 2 Kings 20:17

    Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.

  • 2 Kings 20:18

    And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

  • 2 Kings 24:1

    In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

  • 2 Kings 24:7

    And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.