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Tel-Melah
Open directlyEaston's Bible Dictionary · 1897
Hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews returned (id.).
Hastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
TEL-ME'LAH (salt hill), a place in Babylonia from which persons of doubtful pedigree returned. Ezr 2:59; Neh 7:61. Rawlinson would identify it with a city near the Persian Gulf, the Thelme of Ptolemy; Furst would place this also near to Tel-harsa, in Upper Mesopotamia.
Scripture references
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · 1869
heap of salt
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
TEL-ME'LAH (salt hill), a place in Babylonia from which persons of doubtful pedigree returned. Ezr 2:59; Neh 7:61. Rawlinson would identify it with a city near the Persian Gulf, the Thelme of Ptolemy; Furst would place this also near to Tel-harsa, in Upper Mesopotamia.