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Tel-melah

תֵּל מֶ֫לַחStrong’s H8528

tel melach (tel me-lach)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tel melach is the Hebrew word usually translated “from tel” and “melah”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:”
Ezra 2:59 KJV
Meaning
  1. § Tel-melah = "mound of salt"
How it's translated
  • from tel 2
  • melah 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezra 1
  • Nehemiah 1

2 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary

תֵּל מֶ֫לַח tel melach · Tel-melah

§ Tel-melah = "mound of salt" a place in Babylon from which some exiles of unknown parentage came; returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.