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Categories: Torah places, Sumer, Book of Jubilees, Biblical phrases, Tower of Babel
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Tower of Babel  Babel  Babel tower  Babylon Tower  Confounding of languages
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(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another WordNet 3.0
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(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The Tower of Babel narrative in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth and parable meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. Wikipedia
Biblical pericope about hubris and the origin of languages Wikidata
The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible. Wiktionary
A tower erected at Babel by the descendants of Noah's son Ham to reach the sky, and whose completion God thwarted by making the workers speak different languages so that they were unable to understand one another. Wiktionary
Tower erected at Babel. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
ziggurat
theme
origin myth
PART OF
Babylon
Genesis 11
CATEGORY DOMAIN
Genesis
COUNTRY
Iraq
Babylonia
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Dictionnaire Infernal
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
DIFFERENT FROM
Project:Babel
MAIN SUBJECT
hubris
language
chaos
unity
RELIGION
Christianity
Judaism
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Tower of Babel, Babel
Wikipedia
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Tower of Babel
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Tower of Babel
Wiktionary
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Babel, Tower of Babel
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Babel tower, Babylon Tower, Confounding of languages, Confounding of tongues, confusion of languages, Confusion of the tongues, Confusion of Tongues, Genesis 11, The Tower of Babel, Tower of Babal, Tower of Babbel, Tower of babel, Tower Of Babel, Tower of Babel in Islamic tradition, Tower of bable, Tower of Babylon, Tower of tongues

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