תְּלַאשַּׂרTᵉlaʼssar

proper name [of a location]: apparently in Mesopotamia (2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah 37:12)

Pronunciation: tel-as-sar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8515

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 19:12 Have the gods of other nations rescued them—such nations as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar? My predecessors destroyed them all!
  • Isaiah 37:12 Have the gods of other nations rescued them—such nations as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar? My predecessors destroyed them all!

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).