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Telessar

Telessar proper noun: a city mentioned in 2 Kings 19:12 and Isaiah 37:12 as the destroyed city of the "children of Eden".

Proper noun

Telessar

  1. A city mentioned in 2 Kings 19:12 and Isaiah 37:12 as the destroyed city of the "children of Eden".
    • Gozan, Harran, Rezeph, and Telessar were in Mesopotamia. Some other places are not known.1882, Cunningham Geikie, Rehoboam to Hezekiah, page 454
    • Sennacherib mentions it in 2 Kings 19:12 and Isaiah 37:12 when referring to the 'children of Eden, which were in Telessar'; and the possessions of Pharaoh are referred to in Ezekiel 31:9 as extending to Eden.2013, Caleb L Moore, The Cherubim, →ISBN, page 11

Questions about Telessar

What does Telessar mean?
Telessar means a city mentioned in 2 Kings 19:12 and Isaiah 37:12 as the destroyed city of the "children of Eden".
What part of speech is Telessar?
Telessar is a proper noun.

Words near Telessar in the dictionary

  1. telespectroscopes
  2. telespectroscopic
  3. Telesphoros
  4. Telesphorus
  5. telesport
  6. Telessar
  7. telestation
  8. telestations
  9. telestereograph
  10. telestereographs
  11. telestereography

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