Tel-abib standard
in Eze 3:15 as the place to which the prophet went, and where he found Jewish captives "that dwelt by the river Chebar." That Tel-abib is written, as Fried.
Where is Tel-abib in the Bible?
Tel-abib was a settlement of exiled Jews located by the Chebar River in ancient Babylonia, in the region of modern-day Iraq. This was the place where the prophet Ezekiel lived during the Babylonian exile, as recorded in Ezekiel 3:15, where he went to join other Jewish captives dwelling by the river. The name Tel-abib likely means "Mound of the Flood" in Babylonian, though scholars debate its exact origins. Ezekiel's ministry at Tel-abib was significant because it was there that he received his prophetic calling and began delivering God's messages to the exiled community during one of Israel's darkest periods.
Tel-abib
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)in Eze 3:15 as the place to which the prophet went, and where he found Jewish captives "that dwelt by the river Chebar." That Tel-abib is written, as Fried. Delitzsch suggests, for Til Ababi, "Mound of the Flood" (which may have been a not uncommon village-name in Babylonia) is uncertain. Moreover, if the captives themselves were the authors of the name, it is more likely to have been in the Hebrew language. Septuagint, which has meteoros, "passing on high," referring to the manner in which the prophet reached Tel-abib, must have had a different Hebrew reading.
2The Position of the Settlement
If the Chebar be the nar Kabari, as suggested by Hilprecht, Tel-abib must have been situated somewhere in the neighborhood of Niffer, the city identified with the Calneh of Ge 10:10. The tablet mentioning the river Kabaru refers to grain (barley?) seemingly sent by boat from Niffer in Nisan of the 21st year of Artaxerxes I. Being a navigable waterway, this was probably a good trading-center.
Literature
See Hilprecht and Clay, Business Documents of Murasha Sons ("Pennsylvania Exp.," Vol IX, 28); Clay, Light on the Old Testament from Babel, 405.
T. G. Pinches
tel-har'-sha (tel-charsha'): In Ezr 2:59; Ne 7:61 (the King James Version in latter, "'Telharesha," tel-ha-re'sha, -har'e-sha), a Babylonian