Bible dictionaries
Babbling
What Bible dictionaries say about “Babbling”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Babbling - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
BAB'BLING, ppr. Talking idly; telling secrets.
2. Uttering a succession of murmuring sounds; as a babbling stream.
3. In hunting, babbling is when the hounds are too busy after they have found a good scent.
BAB'BLING, n. Foolish talk. 1 Tim 6.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
bab'-ling siach; the Revised Version (British and American) COMPLAINING): The consequence of tarrying long at the wine (Pr 23:29 the King James Version); lalia, the Revised Version (British and American) "talk" (Ecclesiasticus 19:6; 20:5 the King James Version); kenophonia, literally, "making an empty sound" (1Ti 6:20; 2Ti 2:16 the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915