Tel-melah

Tel-melah in the Topics

Hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews returned (id.).

Named in the Bible

2 verses

  • Ezra 2:59 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:
  • Nehemiah 7:61 And these were they which went up also from Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.