babylonian (of or relating to babylonia or babylon)

  • 1Babylonia — Ancient Mesopotamia Euphrates · Tigris Sumer Eridu · Kish · Uruk · …

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  • 2Babylonian — I. noun Date: 1540 1. a native or inhabitant of ancient Babylonia or Babylon 2. the form of the Akkadian language used in ancient Babylonia II. adjective Date: 1567 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Babylonia or Babylon, the Babylonians,… …

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  • 3Babylonia — • Includes geography, history, and biblical references Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Babylonia     Babylonia     † …

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  • 4Babylonian — ► NOUN ▪ a person from Babylon or Babylonia, an ancient city and kingdom in Mesopotamia. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ relating to Babylon or Babylonia …

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  • 5Babylonian law — Archaeological material for the study of Babylonian law is singularly extensive. So called contracts exist in the thousands, including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts, and most important of all, actual legal… …

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  • 6Babylonian — [ˌbabɪ ləʊnɪən] noun 1》 an inhabitant of Babylon or Babylonia, an ancient city and kingdom in Mesopotamia. 2》 the dialect of Akkadian spoken in ancient Babylon. adjective relating to Babylon or Babylonia …

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  • 7Babylonian — /bæbəˈloʊniən/ (say babuh lohneeuhn) adjective 1. relating to Babylon or Babylonia. 2. sinful. –noun 3. an inhabitant of ancient Babylonia. 4. a language of Babylonia, especially the Semitic language of the Akkadian group …

  • 8Belus (Babylonian) — Belus or Belos in classical Greek or classical Latin texts (and later material based on them) in a Babylonian context refers to the Babylonian god Bel Marduk. Though often identified with Greek Zeus and Latin Jupiter as Zeus Belos or Jupiter… …

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  • 9Nabonidus Chronicle — The Nabonidus Chronicle The Nabonidus Chronicle is an ancient Babylonian text, part of a larger series of Babylonian Chronicles incribed in cuneiform script on clay tablets. It deals primarily with the reign of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo …

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  • 10NABONIDUS — (Nabû naʾid), last king of Babylon (556–539 B.C.E.), son of a governor, Nabû balaṭsu iqbi, and a votaress of Sin. A native of haran , Nabonidus was a military commander in his sixties when he ascended the throne of Babylon. The principal… …

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