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tēl melaḥ תֵּל מֶ֫לַח ‘Tel-melah’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from tēl תֵּל ‘mound’ and melaḥ מֶ֫לַח ‘salt’

tēl melaḥ pr n loc
Tel-melah = "mound of salt"
1) a place in Babylon from which some exiles of unknown parentage came; returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel

Mentioned in Ezra 2:59 Nehemiah 7:61

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