תֵּל
tel
“mound”
Definition
a mound
by contraction from H8524 (תָּלַל);
- mound, heap, heap of ruins 1a) mound (of ruin-heap of city) 1b) mound, hill (of elevation on which city stood)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
תֵּל appears 4 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
This is what the LORD says:“I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tentsand have compassion on his dwellings.And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins,and the palace will stand in its rightful place.
Therefore, behold, the days are coming,declares the LORD,when I will sound the battle cryagainst Rabbah of the Ammonites.It will become a heap of ruins,and its villages will be burned.Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors,says the LORD.
Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.