Babylon vs. Babel — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Babylon and Babel
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Babylon
Babylon was the capital city of the ancient Babylonian Empire, which itself is a term referring to either of two separate empires in the Mesopotamian area in antiquity. These two empires achieved regional dominance between the 19th and 15th centuries BC, and again between the 7th and 6th centuries BC. The city, built along both banks of the Euphrates river, had steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods.
Babel
A confused noise made by a number of voices
The babel of voices on the road
Babylon
A city or place of great luxury, sensuality, and often vice and corruption.
Babel
A confusion of sounds or voices
Passengers chattering in a babel of tongues at the international airport.
Babylon
A place of captivity or exile.
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Babel
A scene or situation of confusion
"a babel of commemorative ceremonies, statues, and tombs sponsored by competing cults of martyred revolutionaries" (Thomas L. Benjamin).
Babylon
A female breast.
Babel
Alternative form of Babel
Babylon
The chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capitol of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
Babel
The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel.
Babel
Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
That babel of strange heathen languages.
The grinding babel of the street
Babel
A confusion of voices and other sounds
Babel
(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another
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