Calah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Calah
     one of the most ancient cities of Assyria. "Out of that land he
     [i.e., Nimrod] went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh,
     Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, and Resen" (Gen. 10:11, R.V.). Its site
     is now marked probably by the Nimrud ruins on the left bank of
     the Tigris. These cover an area of about 1,000 acres, and are


     second only in size and importance to the mass of ruins opposite
     Mosul. This city was at one time the capital of the empire, and
     was the residence of Sardanapalus and his successors down to the
     time of Sargon, who built a new capital, the modern Khorsabad.
     It has been conjectured that these four cities mentioned in Gen.
     10:11 were afterwards all united into one and called Nineveh
     (q.v.).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Calah, favorable; opportunity