<strong>TELEM</strong> (tē'lĕm, Heb. <em>telem</em>)<br /><br />

A city of Judah near the border of Edom (<bibleref ref="Josh.15.24">Josh.15.24</bibleref>).A porter who put away his foreign wife after the return from captivity (<bibleref ref="Ezra.10.24">Ezra.10.24</bibleref>).

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<strong>TELEM</strong> <strong>te’ lĕm</strong> (<span class="hebrew">טֶ֖לֶם</span>). 1. A Levite who put away his foreign wife in the time of Ezra (<bibleref ref="Ezra.10.24">Ezra 10:24</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="1Esd.9.25">1 Esd 9:25</bibleref>; KJV, ASV TOLBANES).<br /><br />

2. A town in S Judah from which King Saul launched his attack on Agag, king of the Amalekites (<bibleref ref="Josh.15.24">Josh 15:24</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="1Sam.15.4">1 Sam 15:4</bibleref>); an alternate form of <span class="small-caps">Telaim</span>.

<h2>International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)</h2>

A city in the Negeb "toward the border of Edom," belonging to Judah (<bibleref ref="Josh.15.24">Jos 15:24</bibleref>). In Septuagint of <bibleref ref="2Sam.3.12">2Sa 3:12</bibleref> Abner is said to send messengers to David at Thelam (Thailam); this would seem to be the same place and also to be identical with the Telaim and Telam of Saul (see [[Telaim]]). It is probably the same as the Talmia of the Talmud (Neubauer, Geog. du Talmud, 121). The site has not been recovered.<br /><br />
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One of three "porters" who had married foreign wives (<bibleref ref="Ezra.10.24">Ezr 10:24</bibleref>), his name appearing as "Tolbanes" in 1 Esdras 9:25; perhaps the same as TALMON (which see).

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