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tēl ʾāvīv תֵּל אָבִיב ‘Tel-abib’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from tēl תֵּל ‘mound’ and ʾāvīv אָבִיב ‘Abib’

tēl ʾāvīv pr n loc
Tel-abib = "mound of the flood"
1) a city in Babylon, the home of the prophet Ezekiel, located on the river Chebar which was probably a branch of the Euphrates

Mentioned in Ezekiel 3:15

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