Strong's Lexicon

H8510

H8510 — תֵּל

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewtelnoun mascOccurrences: 5TWOT: 2513a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H8510
Word:	תֵּל
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	by contraction from H8524
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	5
Transliteration:	tel
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	tale
Meaning:	1. a mound
KJV Renderings:	heap, X strength.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB9165

תֵּל noun [masculine] mound; —

1. mound, ruin-heep (of city): construct תֵּל(ֿ)עוֺלָם Josh 8:28 ( J E ), Deut 13:17, תֵּל שְׁמָמָה Jer 49:2.

2. mound or hill on which city stood: suffix תִּלָּם Josh 11:18 ( D ), תִּלָּתּ Jer 30:18.

BDB9173

תֶּ֫לֶם noun masculine^{Job 31:38} furrow; — absolute ׳ ת Job 39:10 (other conjectures Du Perles^{Anal. 53}); plural construct תַּלְמֵי שָׂדָ֑י Hos 10:4; Hos 12:12 suffix תְּלָמֶיהָ Job 31:38; Ps 65:11. — On ploughing in Palestine see Hogg^{Ency. Bib. AGRICULTURE} Vogelst^{Landwirthsch. 25 ff.}, on depth of furrow (not more than 8-10 centimeters) Id^ib.36 Anderlind^{ZPV ix. 25, 29}; also Benz Archaeology under the word — תִּלָּם see תֵּל above

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

כתל (k’thal)

Ezra 5:8

KJV: Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.great…: Chaldee, stones of rolling

EHCC: and timber is laid in the walls, .

Daniel 5:5

KJV: In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

EHCC: upon the plaster of the wall of the

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