HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H8515
תְּלַאשָּׂ֑ר
te.las.sar — Telassar
§ Telassar or Thelasar = "Assyrian hill" a city conquered and held by the Assyrians located apparently in Mesopotamia
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Telassar
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Or Thelasar, (Isa. 37:12; 2 Kings 19:12), a province in the south-east of Assyria, probably in Babylonia. Some have identified it with Tel Afer, a place in Mesopotamia, some 30 miles from Sinjar.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.