(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
A term meaning "the gate of God," Babel became synonymous with the confusion of languages that typified cosmopolitan Babylon (Gen 11: 4-9) The Tower of Babel ("House of the Terrace-platform of Heaven and Earth") was a ziggurat See ziggurat
The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place
has several possible meanings : "gate to God" or "God confused (the language of men)"
If there is a babel of voices, you hear a lot of people talking at the same time, so that you cannot understand what they are saying. a confused babel of sound. = babble, hubbub. the confusing sound of many voices talking together (Tower of Babel, (in the Bible) tower in ancient Babylon whose builders made God angry, so he made them unable to understand each other's speech)
A city in Shinar [Babylonia], Babel [noun] [OW] is where the building of a Tower of Babel [CE] is held, in the biblical book of Genesis [Gen 11: 1-9 [BLB] ], to have been halted by the confusion of tongues
Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages