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# בָּבֶל

Biblical Aramaic

**Babylon** — used 25 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Babylon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d1_5b6_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּבֶל: n.pr.loc. Babylon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d1_5b6_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Babylon (BH id.);—Dn 2:12 + 15 times Dn, 9 times Ezr.

### Jastrow 1903

בָּבֶל: Babel, the city of Babylon; Babylonia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d1_5b6_5dc/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (b. h.) pr. n. Babel, the city of Babylon; Babylonia, a country of varying limits, chiefly comprising Mesopotamia, a portion of Great Armenia and some neighbouring countries east of the Tigris (v. Neub. Géogr. p. 320). \[Owing to the continued political disturbances in Palestine, Babylonia gradually became the centre of Jewish scholarship; hence both the frequent comparisons and jealousies between the East and the West (Babyl. a. Palest.); cmp. אֶרֶץ, חֲנַנְיָה, תַּלְמוּד. Kidd. 69ᵇ; 71ᵇ. Sot. 49ᵇ. Y. Snh. I, 19ᵃ; Y. Ned. VI, 40ᵃ bot. כי מב׳ תצא וכ׳ (sarcastic imitation of Is. II, 3). Snh. 24ᵃ תלמודה של ב׳ Babylonian method (Talmud). עולי ב׳ those coming from Bab. to visit the Temple, pilgrims. Ned. V, 4 דבר של ע׳ ב׳ that in which pilgrims from Bab. (i.e. Jews living abroad) have a share, as the Temple Mount &c. \[Macc. 24ᵃ, a. e. המונה של ב׳, read רומי as Ms. M.; cmp. אֲרָמִי.\]

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Babylon (16); Babylon (9).

## In the verses

[Daniel 4:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.26/#tree)

לִקְצָ֥ת יַרְחִ֖ין תְּרֵֽי־עֲשַׂ֑ר עַל־הֵיכַ֧ל מַלְכוּתָ֛א דִּ֥י בָבֶ֖ל מְהַלֵּ֥ךְ הֲוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* to.\[the\] end of.months two.plus ten on the.palace of the.kingdom (diy).of Babylon walking.about he.was

*JPS 1917:* At the end of twelve months he was walking upon the royal palace of Babylon.

[Daniel 3:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.30/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֣יִן מַלְכָּ֗א הַצְלַ֛ח לְשַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֛ךְ וַעֲבֵ֥ד נְג֖וֹ עֲבֵ֥ד נְג֖וֹ בִּמְדִינַ֥ת בָּבֶֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* then the king he.caused.to.prosper (et) Shadrach Meshach and.Abednego and.Abednego in the.province of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d1_5b6_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5d1_5b6_5dc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).