תֵּל
têl · H8510 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Thing
- Tell, moundMunicipal structures16 verses
Meanings
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mound
A slightly elevated area used for building a town
ExamplesJoshua 11:13 However, Israel did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned.
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heap of ruins, mound
A mound formed from the ruins of a destroyed city
ExamplesDeuteronomy 13:16 “Then you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its public square, and burn the city and all its plunder with fire as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God; and it shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.
Joshua 8:28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a refuse heap forever, a desolation until this day.
Jeremiah 30:18 “This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob And have compassion on his dwellings; And the city will be rebuilt on its ruins, And the palace will stand on its rightful place.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- עוֹלָםforever 2
- שְׁמָמָהdesolation 1
- הּher 1
- הֶםtheir 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁמָמָהdesolation 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 4
- לto/for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landforms001002003
- This noun denotes a ruin mound, as in Joshua 8:28's account of Joshua making Ai a permanent refuse heap.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8510. tel תֵּל noun [masculine] mound; — 1 mound, ruin-heep (of city): construct…
תֵּל noun [masculine] mound; —
1 mound, ruin-heep (of city): construct תֵּל(ֿ)עוֺלָם Jos 8:28 (JE), Deu 13:17, שְׁמָמָה תֵּל Jer 49:2.
2 mound or hill on which city stood: suffix תִּלָּם Jos 11:18 (D), תִּלָּתּ Jer 30:18.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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