A Babylonian town from which certain Jews who "could not show ... whether they were of Israel" returned to Judaea with Zerubbabel (Ezr_2:59; Neh_7:61). ("hill of the wood.") (Gesenius).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Tel-har'sa. (hill of the artificer). One of the Babylonian towns, or villages, mentioned in Ezr_2:59; Neh_7:61, along with Tel-melah and Cherub, probably in the low country near the sea.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
(Heb. [for Chald.] Tel-charsha', חִרַשָׁא תֵּלאּ, hill of the artificer [ Gesenius, of the wood; Fürst, of the Magus],; Sept. Θελαρησά v.r. Θελαρσά; Vulg. Thelharsa), one of the Babylonian towns, or villages, from which some Jews, who could not show their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel, returned to Judaea with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2, 59; Neh_7:61 [A.V. Tel-haresha]). It probably was in the low country near the sea, in the neighborhood of Tel-melah and Cherub, places which are associated with it. Herzfeld's conjecture (Gesch. Isr. 1, 452) that the name is connected with the river Haran, in Susiana (Ammian. Marc. 23:p. 325, Bip.) is very precarious.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.