When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Tower of Babel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

    The phrase "Tower of Babel" does not appear in Genesis nor elsewhere in the Bible; it is always "the city and the tower" [c] or just "the city". [d] The original derivation of the name Babel, which is the Hebrew name for Babylon, is uncertain.

  3. Primeval history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeval_history

    Noah the husbandman (the invention of wine), his drunkenness, his three sons, and the Curse of Canaan; The toledot of the sons of Noah (10:1–11:9) the Table of Nations (the sons of Noah and the origins of the nations of the world) and how they came to be scattered across the Earth through the Tower of Babel) The toledot of Shem (11:10–26)

  4. Nimrod - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod

    Pieter Bruegel's The Tower of Babel depicts a traditional Nimrod inspecting stonemasons.. The first biblical mention of Nimrod is in the Generations of Noah. [6] He is described as the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great-grandson of Noah; and as "a mighty one in the earth" and "a mighty hunter before the Lord".

  5. That Hideous Strength - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Hideous_Strength

    He hypnotises and interviews the tramp (who the N.I.C.E. still believe may be the real Merlin) and the two of them are brought to a banquet. There Merlin pronounces the curse of Babel upon the assembled N.I.C.E. leaders, causing all present to speak gibberish, and also liberates the many animals on which the N.I.C.E. were experimenting. The ...

  6. Divine retribution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_retribution

    Genesis 3:14–24 – Curse upon Adam and Eve and expulsion from the Garden of Eden; Disobedience; Genesis 4:9–15 – Curse upon Cain after his slaying of his brother, Abel; Genesis 6–7 – The Great Flood; Rampant evil and Nephilim; Genesis 11:1–9 – The confusion of languages at the Tower of Babel; To scatter them over the Earth

  7. Mythical origins of language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythical_origins_of_language

    The Tower of Babel passage from Genesis tells of God punishing humanity for arrogance and disobedience by means of the confusion of tongues. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

  8. Masonic myths - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_myths

    The Tower of Babel (Pieter Brueghel the Elder). The myth of the Tower of Babel has several interpretations in Masonic texts. A moralistic biblical version, an opposing one that proposes a positive vision of the tower's construction, and Anderson's constitutions, which synthesize both.

  9. The City Coat of Arms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_Coat_of_Arms

    The short story details the creation of the Tower of Babel. [2] The narrator notes how many different people, from various nationalities had a hand in the construction. The massive scale of the project creates so many logistical and societal complications that it becomes impossible for civilization to ever achieve the original plan, or to even seriously believe in the plan.