Tel-abib
תֵּל אָבִיבStrong’s H8512tel aviv (tel a-viv)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tel aviv is the Hebrew word usually translated “tel” and “abib”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.”
Meaning
- § Tel-abib = "mound of the flood"
How it's translated
- tel 1
- abib 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
תֵּל אָבִיב tel aviv · Tel-abib
§ Tel-abib = "mound of the flood" a city in Babylon, the home of the prophet Ezekiel, located on the river Chebar which was probably a branch of the Euphrates
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “abib” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
A'BIB, noun
[Heb. swelling, protuberant. To produce the first or early fruit; a full grown ear of corn.]
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.