G897 – Babulon – Βαβυλών – Babylon

Strong’s ID:
G897
Greek Word:
Βαβυλών
Transliteration:
Babulon
Pronunciation:
bab-oo-lone’
Part of Speech:
noun proper locative
Usage Count:
12
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

of Hebrew origin ; Babylon, the capitol of Chaldaea (literally or figuratively [as a type of tyranny]):—Babylon.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

Babylon = “confusion”
1) a very large and famous city, the residence of the Babylonian kings, situated on both banks of the Euphrates. Cyrus had formerly captured it, but Darius Hystaspis threw down its gates and walls, and Xerxes destroyed the temple of Belis. At length the city was reduced to almost solitude, the population having been drawn off by the neighbouring Seleucia, built on the Tigris by Seleucus Nicanor.
2) of the territory of Babylonia
3) allegorically, of Rome as the most corrupt seat of idolatry and the enemy of Christianity

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.