“Interestingly, the word for "Babel" and "Babylon" is the same in Hebrew. This Hebrew word is translated twice in Genesis 10–11 as "Babel" and elsewhere translated as "Babylon." The "Babel" translation is likely chosen to distinguish the former from the latter empire. The Theological Wordbook of Old Testament explains the Hebrew word babel as follows: Babylon is the Greek spelling of the name which in Hebrew is uniformly "Babel." The words [sic] occurs some 290 times and refers to an ancient city on the eastern bank of the Euphrates about twenty miles south of Bagdad, near the modern village of Hilla in Iraq.”