Easton's Bible Dictionary Hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews returned (id.). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia TEL-MELAH tel-me'-la (tel-melah, "hill of salt"): A Babylonian town mentioned in Ezra 2:59 Nehemiah 7:61 with Tel-harsha and Cherub (see TEL-HARSHA). It possibly lay on the low salt tract near the Persian Gulf. In 1 Esdras 5:36 it is called "Thermeleth."

Multi-Version Concordance Tel-melah (2 Occurrences) Ezra 2:59 And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: (See JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS) Nehemiah 7:61 And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel: (See JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS)