H8515 H8515
Telassar (Mesopotamian city conquered by Assyria)
Telassar appears in Assyrian boasts recorded in 2 Kings 19:12 and Isaiah 37:12: the Assyrian Rabshakeh taunts Jerusalem by listing cities their gods failed to save, including Telassar, where 'the people of Eden' lived. The name likely corresponds to Til-ashuri in Assyrian inscriptions from Esarhaddon's reign. It was probably located in Mesopotamia, possibly near Edessa. The site's exact identification remains uncertain, but the biblical texts cite it as evidence of Assyrian imperial dominance—a city whose gods proved powerless, warning Jerusalem not to trust in theirs.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Both occurrences cite Telassar in identical propaganda speeches by Assyrian officials threatening Jerusalem. The spelling varies slightly (Telassar/Telashar), reflecting variant Hebrew traditions. Spanish shows this: 'Telasar/Telasar?' French and German transliterate consistently. The prepositional 'in Telassar' places it geographically as a conquered city, part of the rhetorical list proving (from the Assyrian perspective) that no god can withstand Assyrian power. 2×
AR["فِي-تَلَسَّارَ", "فِي-تَلْأَسَّارَ"]·ben["তিলাসরে", "তেলাসরে"]·DE["[בתלשר]", "in-Telassar"]·EN["in-Telassar"]·FR["[בתלשר]", "dans-Telassar"]·heb["ב-תלאשר", "ב-תלשר"]·HI["तेलस्सार-में-हैं", "में-तेलास्सार"]·ID["di-Telasar"]·IT["[בתלשר]", "in-Telassar"]·jav["ing-Télasar"]·KO["덼라사르에", "에-텔라사르에"]·PT["em-Tel-Assar", "em-Telasar"]·RU["в-Теласаре", "в-Телассаре"]·ES["en-Telasar", "en-Telasar?"]·SW["katika-Telasari", "walikuwa-Telasari"]·TR["-Tel-Asar'da", "Telassar'da"]·urd["تلسار-میں-تھے", "میں-تلاسر"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† תְּלַאשָּׂ֑ר n.pr.loc. appar. in Mesopot.;—ת׳ 2 K 19:12 = תְּלַשָּׂ֑ר Is 37:12 (abode of בְּנֵי־עֶדֶן); cf. Assyrian Til-ašuri (Esarhaddon) DlPar. 264 f.; near Edessa WklGesch. Bab. u. Assyrian 269, 335 f.; v. SchrKGF 199 f.; identification not certain, cf. JohnsEncy. Bib. Telassar.