Mound
תֵּלStrong’s H8510tel
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tel is the Hebrew word usually translated “mound of”, “mounds their” and “mound its”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.”
Meaning
- Mound, heap, heap of ruinsmound (of ruin-heap of city) · mound, hill (of elevation on which city stood)
How it's translated
- a mound of 3
- mounds their 1
- mound its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 8:28And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
- Joshua 11:13But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
- Jeremiah 30:18Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
- Jeremiah 49:2Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
תֵּל tel · mound
1) mound, heap, heap of ruins 1a) mound (of ruin-heap of city) 1b) mound, hill (of elevation on which city stood)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mound” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOUND, noun
[Latin mons. See Mount.]
Something raised as a defense or fortification, usually a bank of earth or stone; a bulwark; a rampart or fence.
All definitions and other forms of “mound”
MOUND, verb transitive
To fortify with a mound
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.