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Babel

Babel

11 9.9
A tall tower people try to build to reach heaven that God stops by making them speak different languages
  • proper noun
  • /ˈbeɪbəl/
  • Literature
translation icon : Babel
  • Fine, build your little tower in Babel there and see how far it gets you.
  • Tower of Babel
  • Babel story

So there are like all of these pieces of the Tower of Babel have been spread across the world.

Examples

  • Therefore is the name of it called Babel.

    The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)

  • No one really knows whether there was a real Tower of Babel or what it looked like.

    Blog text (4)

  • So there are like all of these pieces of the Tower of Babel have been spread across the world.

    cari can read

  • But now the Tower of Babel is ancient history.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Also, about a week before the election, the Tower of Babel came to my mind.

    Blog text (11)

  • There is a biblical story about the Tower of Babel that might be relevant here.

    Blog text (31)

  • And in Genesis 11, we get the story of Babel and how nation divides against nation.

    Blog text (11)

  • In Genesis 11:1-9, God scattered the people of Babel into different parts of the world.

    Blog text (9)

  • NEWSMAN: From the Great Pyramid of Giza to the Tower of Babel, brick by brick and stone by stone, mankind has been consumed by one singular desire: to touch the sky.

    Skyscraper (2018)

  • The Tower of Babel was built by Noah's descendants in an attempt to reach heaven.

Synonyms

Tower of Babel
vsBabel
  • Literature
1 7.7

A tall tower in the Bible where God causes people to speak different languages

is the single-word name used for that same biblical building

Compounds

Tower of Babel
  • Literature
1 7.7

A tall tower in the Bible where God causes people to speak different languages

tower of Babel
9.1

A noisy place where people speak many languages and feel confused

Surface Forms

Babel main

Etymology

Babel comes from the Bible story of a tower where people tried to reach heaven and God confused their language. The Hebrew name sounds like balal, 'to confuse', so Babel now suggests a noisy, confusing mix of languages or voices, the same idea you see in the English word babble.