Bible Location
Meaning: a moist table · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Halah was a district of Media or northern Mesopotamia used by Assyria as a deportation destination. It is important because it was one of the places where Israelites were carried into exile. First appears in 2 Kgs 17:6.1
Place meaning
a moist table
Coordinates
36.34, 40.79
First appears
2 Kgs 17:6
AI summary: Halah matters because it gives another concrete destination to the story of Israel's scattering. Together with Habor and Gozan, it shows how systematic and far-reaching the Assyrian deportations were. The cross references present Halah as a place of exile, dislocation, and the remapping of Israelite life under empire.1
Place meaning
a moist table
Latitude
36.34
Longitude
40.79
Bible references
3
A district of Media to which captive Israelites were transported by the Assyrian kings (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chr. 5:26). It lay along the banks of the upper Khabur, from its source to its junction with the Jerujer. Probably the district called by Ptolemy Chalcitis. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
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.