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Genesis 11:9 KJV
Genesis · chapter 11 · verse 9
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.Genesis 11:9 · King James Version
Genesis 11:9 in context
7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9Therefore 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.
10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
11And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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- confoundbâlalto overflowH1101 →
- languagesâphâhthe lipH8193 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- abroadpûwtsto dash in pieces, literally or figurativelyH6327 →
- BabelBâbelBabel , including Babylonia and the Babylonian empireH894 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
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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 cognizance God took of the design that was on foot: The Lord came down to see the city, Gen 11:5.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-9