Bible Location
Meaning: favorable; opportunity · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Calah was one of the ancient Assyrian cities associated with Nimrod and later imperial power. It is important because it belongs to the earliest biblical memory of city-building in Assyria. First appears in Gen 10:11.1
Place meaning
favorable; opportunity
Coordinates
36.14, 43.31
First appears
Gen 10:11
AI summary: Calah matters because it helps trace the rise of Mesopotamian urban power deep into primeval and early imperial memory. Genesis situates it among the formative Assyrian cities, and later history confirmed its significance. The cross references present Calah as an ancient Assyrian city of beginnings, expansion, and empire.1
Place meaning
favorable; opportunity
Latitude
36.14
Longitude
43.31
Bible references
2
One of the most ancient cities of Assyria. “Out of that land he [i.e., Nimrod] went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, and Resen” (Gen. 10:11, R.V.). Its site is now marked probably by the Nimrud ruins on the left bank of the Tigris. These cover an area of about 1,000 acres, and are second only in size and importance to the mass of ruins opposite Mosul. This city was at one time the capital of the empire, and was the residence of Sardanapalus and his successors down to the time of Sargon, who built a new capital, the modern Khorsabad. It has been conjectured that these four cities mentioned in Gen. 10:11 were afterwards all united into one and called Nineveh (q.v.). 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Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated.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.