- Original: תּל - Transliteration: Tel - Phonetic: tale - Definition: 1. mound, heap, heap of ruins a. mound (of ruin-heap of city) b. mound, hill (of elevation on which city stood) - Origin: by contraction from H8524 - TWOT entry: 2513a - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: By contraction from H8524 ; a mound: - heap X strength. Total KJV Occurrences: 5 • heap, 4 Deuteronomy 13:16; Joshua 8:28; Jeremiah 30:18; Jeremiah 49:2 • strength, 1 Joshua 11:13