תֵּל
tel · mound, ruin heap
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8510 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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tel (תֵּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mound, ruin heap”.
Mound: a hill formed by the ruins of a destroyed city.
How to say it
tel
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- What remains of a fallen city; the hill where it stood.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- heap of ruins ×2
- mound ×2
- mounds ×1
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 13:16
All its spoil you shall gather into the middle of its square, and you shall burn with fire the city and all its spoil as a whole offering to YHWH your Elohim, and it shall be a heap of ruins forever; it shall not be rebuilt again.
- Joshua 8:28
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap of ruins forever, a desolation, to this day.
- Joshua 11:13
Only, all the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel did not burn them, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned.
- Jeremiah 30:18
Thus says YHWH: Look, I am bringing back the captivity of the tents of Jacob, and on his dwellings I will have compassion; and the city will be built on its mound of ruins, and the palace on its rightful place will stand.
- Jeremiah 49:2
Therefore, look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will make heard against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon the shout of war; and it will become a mound of desolation, and her daughters will be burned with fire; and Israel will possess those who possessed him, says YHWH.