Judges 6:11, 19; Isaiah 1:29, etc. In Isaiah 61:3 it is rendered in the plural
“trees;” Hos. 4:13, “elm” (R.V., “terebinth”). Hos. 4:13, “elm” (R.V.,
“terebinth”). In 1 Samuel 17:2, 19 it is taken as a proper name, “Elah”
(R.V. marg., “terebinth”).
“The terebinth of Mamre, or its lineal successor, remained from the days
of Abraham till the fourth century of the Christian era, and on its site
Constantine erected a Christian church, the ruins of which still remain.”
This tree “is seldom seen in clumps or groves, never in forests, but stands
isolated and weird-like in some bare ravine or on a hill-side where nothing
else towers above the low brushwood” (Tristram).
- TEKEL weighed (Daniel 5:27).
- TEKOA, TEKOAH pitching of tents; fastening down, a town of Judah,
about 12 miles south of Jerusalem, and visible from the city. From this
place Joab procured a “wise woman,” who pretended to be in great
affliction, and skilfully made her case known to David. Her address to the
king was in the form of an apologue, similar to that of Nathan (2 Samuel
12:1-6). The object of Joab was, by the intervention of this woman, to
induce David to bring back Absalom to Jerusalem (2 Samuel 14:2, 4, 9).
This was also the birth-place of the prophet Amos (1:1).
It is now the village of Teku’a, on the top of a hill among ruins, 5 miles
south of Bethlehem, and close to Beth-haccerem (“Herod’s mountain”).
- TEL-ABIB hill of corn, a place on the river Chebar, the residence of
Ezekiel (Ezekiel 3:15). The site is unknown. - TELAIM young lambs, a place at which Saul gathered his army to fight
against Amalek (1 Samuel 15:4); probably the same as Telem (2). - TELASSAR or Thelasar, (Isaiah 37:12; 2 Kings 19:12), a province in the
south-east of Assyria, probably in Babylonia. Some have identified it with
Tel Afer, a place in Mesopotamia, some 30 miles from Sinjar. - TELEM oppression. (1.) A porter of the temple in the time of Ezra
(10:24).
(2.) A town in the southern border of Judah (Joshua 15:24); probably the
same as Telaim.