Bible Dictionary: Mounds

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Strong's Hebrew

8510. tel -- a mound
... Definition: heap. Word Origin from an unused word Definition a mound NASB Word
Usage heap (2), mounds (1), ruin (2). heap, strength. By ...
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Library

The Temples and the Gods of Chaldaea
... Chaldaean cities: the resemblance of their ruins to natural mounds caused by their
exclusive use of brick as a building material"Their city walls: the ...
/.../chapter iithe temples and the.htm

The Old Testament and Archeology
... but the information thus gained was more or less vague, and in many cases of no
practical scientific value.[1] They saw many strange mounds and ruins, and ...
/.../the christian view of the old testament/chapter iv the old testament.htm

This Day are Opened, Our Mouths to Give Thanks
... 9. He afflicted us by the breaches, that He might punish our crimes: He raised
the mounds that thereby, He might humble our boasting. ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn ii this day are.htm

From the Flood to Abraham
... They threw up with infinite toil great mounds, which still stand as monuments
of human achievement. Many such mounds and ruins, any ...
/.../tidwell/the bible period by period/chapter iii from the flood.htm

The Earliest Chapters in Divine Revelation
... The oldest mounds of Babylonia and Egypt contain ruins of ancient temples, altars,
and abundant evidence of the religious zeal of the peoples who once ...
/.../iii the earliest chapters in.htm

Sovereignty and Salvation
... Ask the moles and the bats, whose companions they are; or ask the mounds beneath
which they are buried; or go where the idle gazer walketh through the museum ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/sovereignty and salvation.htm

The Northern Mountains
... Vincent, Guadaloupe, and St. Lucia, hanging gardens compared with which
those of Babylon of old must have been Cockney mounds. The ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xi the northern mountains.htm

The Sixth Word
... the whole course of man's history, in the entire spiritual evolution, whose first
steps and rude beginnings we trace in the burial mounds of prehistoric races ...
//christianbookshelf.org/beibitz/gloria crucis/vii the sixth word.htm

Of the Outer Limbs of Man, and their Use.
... Do they not, as it were by mounds, both afford protection to the eyes, so that nothing
may fall into them from above, [1870] and at the same time ornament? ...
/.../lactantius/on the workmanship of god/chap x of the outer limbs.htm

Personal Service
... eagle with my eye on the sun, with wings outstretched true to the line upward which
I soar, bound no longer to the rooks of prejudice or the mounds of worldly ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/personal service.htm

Thesaurus

Mounds (7 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Mounds (7 Occurrences). Joshua 11:13 But as for the cities
that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. ...
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Babylonia (17 Occurrences)
... BABYLONIA. bab-i-lo'-ni-a 1. Mounds 2. Explorations 3. Names 4. Semites 5. Sumerians
6. Home of the Semites 7. Immigration 8. Language 9. Script 10. ...
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Asshur (133 Occurrences)
... In Genesis 2:14 "Assyria" ought to be "Asshur," which was the original capital of
Assyria, a city represented by the mounds of Kalah Sherghat, on the west bank ...
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Nineveh (23 Occurrences)
... A little more than forty years ago the French consul at Mosul began to search
the vast mounds that lay along the opposite bank of the river. ...
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Ramps (8 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 32:24 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the
city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of ...
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Abarim (8 Occurrences)
... Numbers 33:47, 48); `this mountain-country of the Abarim' (Numbers 27:12 Deuteronomy
32:49); Iye-abarim, which means "Heaps of the Abarim," or "Mounds of the ...
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Assur (2 Occurrences)
... ceased to be the chief religious center. The mounds of Assur are among the
largest in Mesopotamia. They rise abruptly from the Tigris ...
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Sherghat
... ceased to be the chief religious center. The mounds of Assur are among the
largest in Mesopotamia. They rise abruptly from the Tigris ...
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Sardis (3 Occurrences)
... The modern name of the necropolis is Bin Tepe or Thousand Mounds, because of the
large group of great mounds in which the kings and nobles were buried. ...
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Forts (12 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help
him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many ...
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Bible Concordance

Mounds (7 Occurrences)

Joshua 11:13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 32:24 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Jeremiah 33:4 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Ezekiel 16:31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 16:39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Ezekiel 21:22 In his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Subtopics

Mounds

Related Terms

Babylonia (17 Occurrences)

Asshur (133 Occurrences)

Nineveh (23 Occurrences)

Ramps (8 Occurrences)

Abarim (8 Occurrences)

Assur (2 Occurrences)

Sherghat

Sardis (3 Occurrences)

Forts (12 Occurrences)