Pertaining to or originating in Babylonia.

Množina: Babylonians

1. An inhabitant of ancient Babylon.
2. The ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written.

Množina: babylonian captivities

Exile of Jewish deportees to Babylon after Nebuchadnezzar II's capture of Jerusalem 586 BC. According to tradition, the captivity lasted 70 years, but Cyrus of Persia, who conquered Babylon, actually allowed them to go home in 536 BC. By analogy, the name has also been applied to the papal exile to Avignon, France, 1309–77.