Halah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Halah
     a district of Media to which captive Israelites were transported
     by the Assyrian kings (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chr. 5:26). It lay
     along the banks of the upper Khabur, from its source to its
     junction with the Jerujer. Probably the district called by
     Ptolemy Chalcitis.


     

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

  Halah, a moist table