Tel Melah
In Bible versions:
Tel Melah: NET NIVTel-Melah: AVS TEV
Tel-melah: NRSV NASB
heap of salt
a town of Babylon where Israeli exiles once lived
a town of Babylon where Israeli exiles once lived
Google Maps:
Tel-melah (32° 7´, 45° 13´);
Hebrew
Strongs #08528: xlm lt Tel Melach
Tel-melah = "mound of salt"1) a place in Babylon from which some exiles of unknown parentage
came; returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel
8528 Tel Melach tale meh'-lakh
from 8510 and 4417; mound of salt; Tel-Melach, a place in Babylonia: KJV -- Tel-melah.see HEBREW for 08510
see HEBREW for 04417
Tel-melah [ebd]
hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews returned (id.).
TEL-MELAH [isbe]
TEL-MELAH - tel-me'-la (tel-melah, "hill of salt"): A Babylonian town mentioned in Ezr 2:59; Neh 7:61 with Tel-harsha and Cherub (see TEL-HARSHA). It possibly lay on the low salt tract near the Persian Gulf. In 1 Esdras 5:36 it is called "Thermeleth."