Tel-melah
Tel-melah
(Heb. Tel-me’lach, , salt hill; Sept. and , v.r. and ; Vulg. Thelmala) is joined with Tel-harsa and Cherub as the name of a place where the Jews returned who had lost their pedigree after the Captivity (Ezr 2:59; Nehemiah 3:61). It is perhaps the Thelme of Ptolemy (5, 20), which some wrongly read as Theane ( for ), a city of the low salt tract near the Persian Gulf,’ whence probably the name (Gesen. Lex. Heb. s.v.). Cherub, which may be pretty surely identified with Ptolemy’s Chiripha (), was in the same region. Herzfeld (Gesch. Tsr. 1, 452) insists that it designates the province of Melitene according to Ptolemy (6,3), adjoining Susiana west of the Tigris; but Ptolemy (5, 7, 5) and Pliny (6, 3) know only a Melitene on the border of Cappadocia and Armenia Major.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Tel-melah
hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews returned (id.).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Tel-Melah
Connected with Telharsa and Cherub (Chiripha, in Ptolemy). Thelme (Ptolemy 5:20) or “hill of salt,” a city of the low salt district near the Persian gulf (Gesenins).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Tel-Melah
tel-mela (, tel-melah, hill of salt): A Babylonian town mentioned in Ezr 2:59; Neh 7:61 with Tel-harsha and Cherub (see TEL-HARSHA). It possibly lay on the low salt tract near the Persian Gulf. In 1 Esdras 5:36 it is called Thermeleth.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Tel-Melah
H8528
A place in Babylonia.
Ezr 2:59; Neh 7:61
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Tel-melah
Tel-me’lah. See Tel-Harsa.