In the bible how did the tower of babel get it name?

Answer 1

The word means (confusion) which was the result of the confounding of the languages.

Answer 2

Everybody was prattering away then The lord Changed their language on them and they didn't understand each other.So the next day when one called for the other to go to work the other said no I'm not going up to the tower all they do up there is babble thus the babbling tower or the tower of babble or babel

Answer 3

See the University of Pennsylvania's Archeology Dept and Museum. The Tower of Babel is a historic fact, the controversy was what it's purpose was.

Answer 4

We got the expression "babble " from it.It didn't get it's name from us!
Babel was a city where the tower was built.God struck it because the person who was building it wanted to be a big man & reach Heaven & face God.
When God struck the tower down,the common language of the ppl was destroyed & they all spoke different & could no longer understand each other,hence,a bunch of babbling.

Answer 5

Babel comes from Babylon, which comes from the native Akkadian Bāb-ilu, which means "Gate of the god." The name of the city was Babel, which was the Hebrew form (Bavel) of Babylon.

The Tower part comes from the fact that it was a tower. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_babel

Answer 6

It was built by the Babylonians in the city of Babel. This city is thought to be in present day Iraq.

Answer 7

The same way barbarians got their name. To the ancient Greeks the languages of the rest of the east sounded like people were saying :bar barbar" Hence barbarian. Originally it had nothing to do with culture and only denoted somebody who did not speak Greek. Therefore a foreigner.

Answer 8

It was supposedly built by the Babylonians in the city of Babel.

Ya know, I never realised that the word babble stems from it. Thanks for that.

Answer 9

One of the first cities to be built after the Flood. Here God “confused the language of all the earth.” (Ge 11:9) The name is derived from the verb ba·lal′, meaning “confuse.” Local citizens, thinking of their city as God’s seat of government, claimed that the name was compounded from Bab (Gate) and ilu (God), signifying “Gate of God"

Answer 10

When everyone was building it(people from all nations) they were communicating with each other to built it to the heavens, then god caste everyone their own tongue and language, so no-one could understand each, so they stopped building the tower, hence everyone was babbeling to each other.