occupied Tekoa at the time. Tekoa does not figure in the list of repeopled towns given in Ezr 2 ; they ma}' have been simply ' a clan of fellow- townsmen who had held together during the Exile, and were known by this name after they had settled in Jerus;ilem.' In any case their public- spirited zeal (v.") sheds lustre on the name.
J. Taylor. TEKOAH.— This is the AV form in 2 S H^-*" for Tekoa, and is retained by RV in 1 Mac 9^ in the expression ' wilderness of Tekoah.'
TEL-ABIB (3'3i< ^B, perh. 'hill of com,' but see Del. Heh. Lang. 16 ; p-erioipos ; ad acervum no- varum J'rurjum). — A place on the Chebar (Ezk 3">), — one of the rivers or canals in Babylonia. The site is unknown. The LXX and Vulgate have translated the term as if it were not a proper name.
C. W. Wilson.
TELAH (n^u ; B GdAfes, A OdXe, Luc. edXa).— An Ephraimite, I Ch T'-''.
TELAIM (O'N^pn ' the lambs' ; ^i'raX7iiXoi5 ; quasi agnos). — The place at which S.aul concentrated liis forces, and numbered his fighting men before his camiiaign against the Amalekites (1 S 15*). The LXX reads Gilgal for Telaim, and Josephus (Ant. VI. vii. 2) also makes GUgal the place of assembly. Gilgal, however, though so frequently mentioned in connexion with the history of Saul, would be an inconvenient mustering-place for a force about to oiperate against the Amalekites in the desert S. of Palestine. Still it is possible that Saul may have started from the sanctuary to which he returned with his prisoner and booty. A more suitable locality for the place of assembly would, however, be in the Negeb, or Soutli ; and here lay Telem (Jos IS-'), with which Telaim is prob.ably identical. So Wellhausen, Driver, and liudde, who prefer to point o.-tj'o. Wellhausen reads o^o also in 1 S 15' for ■ij'"!!!. The same read- in" should also probably be found in 1 S 27* (see Wellh. and Driver, ad lo'c. , and Hommel, A HT 243).
C. W. Wilson.
TELASSAR (hsn'?!? 2 K 19", -iz^i} Is 37" ' hill of Asshur ' ; B Qa^aBiv, A tiaXturcrip ; Thelassar, Tha- lassar). — A town, inhabited by 'the children of Eden ' (see Eden), which had been conquered by Sennacherib's forefathers, and was in the possession of the Assyrians during that monarch's reign (2 K lO", Is 37'-). It is iniiMlioned with Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph — places in Western Mesopotamia. In this direction lay Beth-Eden, or Bit-'Adini (see art. Edkn, vol. i. p. 642''), a district between the Euphrates and the Belik. It probably stretched along both banks of the I'^uphrates, between Balis and Birejik. In the inscrii)ti()ns, Gozan, Haran, Kezeph, and BSt-'Adini are stated to have been de- stroyed by Sennacherib's forefathers — a fact which harmonizes well with what is said in 2 Kings and Isaiah (Schrader, KAT^ 327). A olace of this name (Til-ASiuri) is mentioned by 1 iglath-pileser III. (Ann. 176, ed. Rost, of. Nimr. ii. a 23) ; but this .seems to have wen in Babylonia. The name is, however, as Schrader remarks, one that might have been given to any place at which a temple had been built to Asshur ; and the Til-ASiuri. which Esarhaddon speaks of having conquered (KIB ii. 219), near tlie land of the Mitanni, as Del. (Parad. 304) remarks, suits better.
C. W. Wilson.
TELEM (Di>9 ; B T^Xw, AN WXXij/i).— A gate- keeper who had married a foreign wife, Ezr 10" ; called in 1 Es 9" TolbanoB ; perhaps the same aa Talmon of Neh 12»».
TELEM (o)n 'oppression'; B Maird^, A TA»m ; Tclem). — One of the uttermost cities of Judah
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TEMPERANCE
towards the border of Edom in t^^f^f ''' ""^f f^^ M,w 15=-'l It is mentioned between Ziph ana ^'etloih, 'and may be the same ,;l^e as Telaim (1 s 15^1 In the LXX reading of 2 b 3 , Abner is laid to have sent messengers to Thelam (ea^W , 'vhere David was; and, if this reading ^e correct Telem or Telaim was probably intended. The
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N of Mofadah the whole district is called Touiam.
TFL-HARSHA (K^n iB 'hUl of the wood'; B
^TBabyfonian tot^f of' unknowij site from ;;hth some of the Jews who 'could not show Xpir fathers' houses, and their seed, whether Uiey their 'f'^^",';"" turned to Judsa after the Cap- were of Ibrael, returnea -^ g 53a the name is tmty (Ezr -2", iNeh < ). in i r-s^o •wTitten Thelersas. ^•
TELL.— See Talk.
TELMELAH (n^? ''5 'hiU of salt' ; B e^Aee^
Babylonian town? of unkno^vn site, -hich is men tioned Nvith Tel - harsha and Cherub (t-^r ^ • Keh 7"). In 1 Es 5^ it is written T^hermeleth^
TEMA (N=-i3 'on the right,' 'south'; ea.M", e,^t ; Themal-X tribe o?Ishmael.te Arabs and a place or district in Arabia, which took their name from Tema, one of the twelve sons of Ish- S (GnV 1 Ch 1-, Is 21"). The people were leaders of caravans, or camel-men, and their en clmpments were apparently on a caravan^route which would be followed by fugitives from Dedan ( Tnh fii» Is 2V^- "). According to some authori- ties the'passage in Job refers to ' caravans crossing the desertin the dr> season ; pressmgforward to look for water S the winter torrents, and fanding none. TheTr disappointment is a lively image of the ex- ierience of Job when he looked for sympathy From hi^ brethren' (Smith, ^5-. A™«'- f^-. J<>te to Tema) In Jer 25^ Tema is mentioned with Dedan and Buz, and it may be inferred rom 1/01T3.14 that it was E. of the former place. Ptolemy (v. six. 6) mentions a to\vn called XS e^MA"!) in the Arabian desert;, and, ac^Sc, to Schrader (KAT- 149), Tema is the Si of-Tiglath-pileser H-. mentioned in conjunc- tion with the Mas'at (the Massa of Gn 2o ).