What does 'Babel' mean?

In Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built to reach the heavens by a united humanity. God, observing the unity of humanity in the construction, resolves to destroy the tower and confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing any such future efforts. The reason for the tower's destruction lies in humankind's deficiency in comparison to God: within a Judeo-Christian framework, humankind is considered to be an inherently flawed creation dependent on a perfect being for its existence, and thus the construction of the tower can be seen as a pointless act of defiance towards the God who created them. As a result, this story is sometimes used within a Judeo-Christian context to explain the existence of many different languages and races. God was thought to scatter man into the four corners of the world. The Greek word Babylon, means “Gate of God” In Hebrew it is BAVEL, which means confound. The ruins of the ancient city of Babylon can be found near the city of Hillah, near Iraq, 60 miles south of Baghdad. There is also a Sumerian Myth called Enmerkar that tells of two gods that confuse al the tongues of humankind during an argument. The Qur’an has a similar story set in Egypt where a tower of clay is to be built in order to reach the God of Moses. The story is also found in a similar form in Central America and in India.