Words

בָּלַל H1101

Home gloss

mix

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

confound / confuse

Note

Flour mixed with oil (Lev 2:4–5); Hos 7:8. The Babylon pun (11:9) is carried by "made babble" under ruling 24; see the notes at 11:7, 9

Rulings

2, 24

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 11

• 11:7 Up, let us go down and mix there their lip, so that they will not hear, a man the lip of his fellow."
• 11:9 Thus he called its name Babylon, for there made babble the lip of all the land; and from there scattered them over the face of all the land.