Babel. In Semitic Babylonian = Bab-ili = "the gate of the god", Compare Genesis 11:9.
Shinar. Babylonia, and is to be distinguished from Assyria (Isaiah 11:11).
Related Commentaries of Genesis 10:10
Genesis 10:10
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,b and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.