Strong's #8510: tel (pronounced tale)

by contraction from 8524; a mound:--heap, X strength.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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têl

1) mound, heap, heap of ruins

1a) mound (of ruin-heap of city)

1b) mound, hill (of elevation on which city stood)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: by contraction from H8524

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Deuteronomy 13:16: "for the LORD thy God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again."
Joshua 8:28: "Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation unto this"
Joshua 11:13: "as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save"
Jeremiah 30:18: "and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner"
Jeremiah 49:2: "of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire:"