Bible Location
Meaning: heap of salt · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Tel-melah was another place named in the post-exilic return lists in connection with uncertain family origins. It is important because it reflects the complexity of identity and belonging after displacement. First appears in Ezra 2:59.1
AI summary: Tel-melah matters because rebuilding the people involved sorting memory, records, and claims of origin. The place appears as part of that fragile return-era process. The cross references present Tel-melah as a post-exilic place-name linked to uncertain ancestry and restored community.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.