HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2477
חֲלַח
cha.lach — Halah
§ Halah = "painful" a city or district in Mesopotamia under Assyrian control where the Israelite captives were taken
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Halah
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G4527
Σαλά
Sala — Sala
Σαλά, ὁ indecl. (Heb. שֶׁלַח), Sala, Shalah: Luk.3:32 (R, txt., Σαλμών, which see), Luk.3:35.† (AS)
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A district of Media to which captive Israelites were transported by the Assyrian kings (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chr. 5:26). It lay along the banks of the upper Khabur, from its source to its junction with the Jerujer. Probably the district called by Ptolemy Chalcitis.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.