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Confusion of Tongues at Babel
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Confusion of tongues — Gustave Doré s interpretation of the confusion of tongues. The confusion of tongues (confusio linguarum) is the initial fragmentation of human languages described in the Book of Genesis 11:1–9, as a result of the construction of the Tower of… … Wikipedia
BABEL, TOWER OF — BABEL, TOWER OF, the edifice whose building is portrayed in Genesis 11:1–9 as the direct cause of the diversity of languages in the world and the dispersion of mankind over all the earth. According to the preceding narrative, mankind after the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Babel — Babel1 [bā′bəl, bab′əl] n. [Heb bavel < Akkadian bābilu, altered (by folk etym. assoc. with bāb, gate & ili god) < pre Akkadian city name babila, Babylon] 1. Bible a city in Shinar in which Noah s descendants tried to build a very high… … English World dictionary
Babel — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Hebrew Bābhel, from Akkadian bāb ilu gate of god Date: 14th century 1. a city in Shinar where the building of a tower is held in Genesis to have been halted by the confusion of tongues 2. often not capitalized … New Collegiate Dictionary
Babel — Synonyms and related words: Aesopian language, Greek, argot, babble, bedlam, cacophony, cant, cipher, clamor, clash, code, confusion of tongues, cryptogram, double Dutch, garble, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, harshness,… … Moby Thesaurus
Tongues, Confusion of — At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations. The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God confounded their language (Gen. 11:1 8), and they were scattered over the whole… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
Tower of Babel — • Information on the history, site, and construction of the tower Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Tower of Babel Tower of Babel … Catholic encyclopedia
Tower of Babel (M. C. Escher) — Artwork title=Tower of Babel artist=M. C. Escher year=1928 type=Woodcut height=62.1 width=38.6 Tower of Babel is a 1928 woodcut by M. C. Escher. It depicts the Babylonians attempting to build a tower to reach God, a story that is recounted in… … Wikipedia
Tower of Babel — The Tower of Babel ( he. מגדל בבל Migdal Bavel ar. برج بابل Burj Babil ) is a structure featured in chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis, an enormous tower intended as the crowning achievement of the city of Babilu, the Akkadian name for Babylon.… … Wikipedia
jaredite — ˈja(a)rəˌdīt noun ( s) Usage: capitalized Etymology: Jared, the eponymous ancestor of the Jaredites according to the Book of Mormon (Ether 1:31 ff) + English ite : one of a group of people that according to Mormon belief settled America after the … Useful english dictionary
Dispersion — (Gr. diaspora, scattered, James 1:1; 1 Pet. 1:1) of the Jews. At various times, and from the operation of divers causes, the Jews were separated and scattered into foreign countries to the outmost parts of heaven (Deut. 30:4). 1) Many were… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
