HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8521
תֵּל חַרְשָׁא
tel char.sah — Tel-harsha
§ Tel-harsa or Tel-haresha = "mound of the deaf mute" a town of Babylon probably located in the low country near the sea
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Tel-haresha
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Hill of the wood, a place in Babylon from which some captive Jews returned to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:59; Neh. 7:61).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.