Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8510
תֵּל
teltale
mound
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: têl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8510is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8510
a mound
The King James renders it: heap, [idiom] strength.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tel is rendered "mound". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 13:16And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.
Deuteronomy 13:16תֵּ֣ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Joshua.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a mound of2
- into a mound of1
- mound its1
- mounds their1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לְתֵ֣ל1
- תֵּ֣ל1
- תֵּל־1
- תִּלָּ֔הּ1
- תִּלָּ֔ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
Deuteronomy
one use
And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.
- תֵּ֣לtelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a mound of
Joshua
two uses
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
- תֵּל־tel-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a mound of
Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.
- תִּלָּ֔םtilamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: mounds their
Jeremiah
two uses
This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.
- תִּלָּ֔הּtilahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mound its
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
- לְתֵ֣לletelpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: into a mound of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.