Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore is the name of it called Babel,.... The name of the city mentioned, and the tower also, which signifies "confusion", as the Septuagint version renders it; and so Josephus (w) says the…
- The Confusion of Tongues 1. נסע nāsa‛ “pluck out, break up, journey.” מקדם mı̂qedem “eastward, or on the east side” as in Gen 2:14; Gen 13:11; Isa 9:11 (12). 6. החלם hachı̂lām “their beginning”,…
Adam Clarke
Therefore is the name of it called Babel - בבל babel, from בל bal, to mingle, confound, destroy; hence Babel, from the mingling together and confounding of the projects and language of these…
We have here the quashing of the project of the Babel-builders, and the turning of the counsel of those froward men headlong, that God's counsel might stand in spite of them. Here is,
I. The…
Cambridge Bible
Therefore was the name of it called Babel Babel is the regular Hebrew form of the name Babylon, see Gen 10:10. The etymology here given is popular; cf. Gen 16:14; Gen 19:22 (J). Like most popular…
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