HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8528
תֵּל מֶ֫לַח
tel me.lach — Tel-melah
§ Tel-melah = "mound of salt" a place in Babylon from which some exiles of unknown parentage came; returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel
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Tel-melah
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews returned (id.).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.