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 Translation for 'Tower of Babel' from English to Polish
SYNO Babel | Tower of Babel
arch.bibl.relig.
wieża {f} Babel
Tower of Babel
Partial Matches
wieża {f}tower
wieża {f} ciśnieńwater tower
tech.
konstrukcja {f} wsporcza (linii napowietrznych)
transmission tower
wieża {f} widokowaobservation tower
lot.
wieża {f} kontroli lotów
control tower
arch.
dzwonnica {f}
bell tower
arch.
wieża {f} zegarowa
clock tower
arch.
wieża {f} Eiffla
Eiffel Tower
naut.
nadbudówka {f}
conning tower
wieża {f} obserwacyjnaobservation tower
baszta {f}tower [bastion]
przeciwpożarowa wieża {f} obserwacyjnafire observation tower
arch.
wieżowiec {m}
tower block [Br.]
wieża {f} [szachy]tower [chess] [dated]
przekonywać [niedok.] o [+loc.]to convince of
przekonać o [dok.]to convince (of)
ze {prep} [+gen.] [materiał]of [material]
{prep} [+gen.]out of
ze {prep} [+gen.]out of
mnóstwo [+gen.]plenty of
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Usage Examples English
  • Later extra-biblical traditions identified Nimrod as the ruler who commissioned the construction of the Tower of Babel, which led to his reputation as a king who was rebellious against God.
  • Like the Genesis flood narrative, the Genesis creation narrative and the account of the Tower of Babel, the story of Eden echoes the Mesopotamian myth of a king, as a primordial man, who is placed in a divine garden to guard the tree of life.
  • Some of the speleothems are noteworthy including the "Tower of Babel" formation.
  • The Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich recounts in her Life of Christ, in the section between the Tower of Babel and Abraham, she writes about mystical visions granted to her of Derketo.
  • Hislop asserted that Semiramis was a queen consort and the mother of Nimrod, builder of the Bible's Tower of Babel.

  • This building was a skyscraper that had become very much a symbol of modernity in Japan, and its destruction in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake was a harrowing omen to many who saw it as reminiscent of the Tower of Babel.
  • The biblical account of the Tower of Babel has been associated by modern scholars to the massive construction undertakings of the ziggurats of Mesopotamia, and in particular to the ziggurat of Etemenanki in Babylon in light of the Tower of Babel Stele describing its restoration by Nebuchadnezzar II.
  • Etemenanki has been suggested to be the Tower of Babel from Genesis 11 in The Bible.
  • During her first talk to the workers, Maria uses the story of the Tower of Babel to highlight the discord between the intellectuals and the workers.
  • He also designed a poster for "The Life of Brian" inspired by Pieter Brueghel's Tower Of Babel, but it was not used.

  • According to the Book of Mormon, "deseret" meant "honeybee" in the language of the Jaredites, a group in the Book of Mormon exiled to the Americas after the construction of the Tower of Babel (see [...]).
  • Thompson's lyrics have also featured references to the Bible, especially in his career with the Pixies; most notably in the incestuous tale of Nimrod in "Nimrod's Son", the stories of Uriah and Bathsheba in "Dead", Samson in "Gouge Away" and references to the Tower of Babel in songs such as "Build High" and "Old Black Dawning".
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