Senses
1. Babylon (city/empire) — The proper noun Babylon, referring to the ancient Mesopotamian city and empire, used both historically and symbolically in the NT (especially Revelation). All three clusters are purely case-inflection variants (nominative/vocative Βαβυλών, genitive Βαβυλῶνος, dative Βαβυλῶνι). Multilingual glosses confirm identity: Arabic بابِلُ/بَابِلَ throughout, Hindi बाबुल uniformly, Korean 바빌론/바벨론 (transliteration variants), Swahili Babeli consistently, Spanish Babylōn/Babilonia as spelling variants of the same referent. 12×
AR["بابِلَ","بابِلُ","بَابِلَ"]·ben["বাবিলের","বাবিলের,","বাবিলের।","বাবিলোনে","ব্যাবিলন","ব্যাবিলনের।"]·DE["Babylon"]·EN["BABULŌN","Babulōn","Babylon","Babylōn","of-Babulōn"]·FR["Babylone"]·heb["בָּבֶל"]·HI["बाबुल","बाबुल-की","बाबुल-में"]·ID["BABEL","Babel","Babel,","Babel."]·IT["Babilonia","babulonos"]·jav["BABIL","Babel,","Babil","Babil,","Babil.","Babèl"]·KO["바벨론","바벨론-의","바벨론이","바벨론이여","바빌론이","바빌론이여"]·PT["BABILÔNIA","Babilônia","para-Babilônia"]·RU["ВАВИЛОН","Вавилон","Вавилоне,","Вавилонского"]·ES["BABYLŌN","Babilonia","Babylōn","de-Babilonia","de-Babylṓn"]·SW["BABELI","Babeli","Babeli,","wa-Babulṓn"]·TR["BABİL","Babil","Babil'de","Babil'in"]·urd["بابل","بابل-کی","بابل،"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
Βαβυλών, -ῶνος, ἡ (בָּבֶל, Heb. form of Assyr. Bab-ili, Gate of God), Babylon: Mat.1:11, 12 17, Act.7:43" (LXX) ; symbolically, of Rome: Rev.14:8 16:19 17:5 18:2, 10, 21, and prob. also 1Pe.5:13.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)