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# תֵּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8510

**mound** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

mound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8510/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֵּל²: mound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8510/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] mound;— mound, ruin-heap (of city): cstr. תֵּל(־)עוֹלָם Jos 8:28 (JE), Dt 13:17, תֵּל שְׁמָמָה Je 49:2. mound or hill on which city stood: sf. תִּלָּם Jos 11:13 (D), תִּלָּהּ Je 30:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a mound (2); mound (2); mounds (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 8:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.8.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.8.28/#tree)

וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ אֶת־הָעָ֑י וַיְשִׂימֶ֤הָ תֵּל־עוֹלָם֙ שְׁמָמָ֔ה עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.burned Joshua (et) (the) Ai and he made.it a.mound of.perpetuity a.desolation until the day (the) this

*JPS 1917:* So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

[Joshua 11:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.11.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.11.13/#tree)

רַ֣ק כָּל־הֶעָרִ֗ים הָעֹֽמְדוֹת֙ עַל־תִּלָּ֔ם לֹ֥א שְׂרָפָ֖ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל זוּלָתִ֛י אֶת־חָצ֥וֹר לְבַדָּ֖הּ שָׂרַ֥ף יְהוֹשֻֽׁעַ׃

*Word for word:* only all the cities \[which were\].standing on mounds their not it burned.them Israel except (et) Hazor it alone he.burned Joshua

*JPS 1917:* But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only — that did Joshua burn.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8510.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8510/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).