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תְּלַאשָּׂ֑ר

Telassar

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Telassar’ fuller range ↓

H8515 Strong's Hebrew
Tᵉlaʼssar Transliteration
/tel-as-sar'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

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תלאשר (Tᵉlaʼssar) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Telassar.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. 2 Kings dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. Scripture first uses it in 2 Kings 19:12. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Telassar
Modern gloss
Telassar
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H8515 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
2 Kings 19:12
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in 2 Kings 19:12.
Isaiah 37:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Isaiah 37:12.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 50%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 1 · 50%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Were in telassar 1×, Were in thelasar 1×
  • American Standard Version: Were in telassar 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Telassar 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Were in tel assar 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H8515 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Were in telassar” 1×
  • “Were in thelasar” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H8515 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Were in telassar” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H8515 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Telassar” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H8515 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Were in tel assar” 2×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Telassar or Thelasar = "Assyrian hill"
  2. a city conquered and held by the Assyrians located apparently in Mesopotamia

Word origin

תְּלַאשָּׂ֑ר n.pr.loc. appar. in Mesopot.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Origin: of foreign derivation

Part of speech: Proper Name Location


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H8515 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
בִּ/תְלַאשָּֽׂר Noun, Proper 2 Kings 19:12 1
בִּ/תְלַשָּֽׂר Noun, Proper Isaiah 37:12 1

Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Telassar). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Or Thelasar, (Isa. 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.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

taking away; heaping up

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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