897 Babulon {bab-oo-lone'}   
   
TDNT - 1:514,89; 專有地名   
   
AV - Babylon 12; 12   
   
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897 Babulon {bab-oo-lone'} 
 
of Hebrew origin 0894; TDNT - 1:514,89; n pr loc 
 
AV - Babylon 12; 12 
 
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