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# babylonian

«babylonian» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Having to do with Babylon, an ancient land and city in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Having to do with Babylon, an ancient land and city in what is now Iraq, or its people and language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/babylonian/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The Babylonian exile after 586 BCE shaped Jewish life, and the Babylonian Talmud was written there. In this text the word refers to an old script and language used in the argument about where letters came from.

### examples

- It was apparently originally invented to represent the Assyrian-Babylonian language, which consisted of seventeen or eighteen sounds. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/babylonian/#x1)
- The earliest known use of this symbol in Babylonian in- scriptions belongs to the third century B. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/babylonian/#x2)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «babylonian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/babylonian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.