Tel Abib is an unidentified place on the river Khabur in what is now Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

. Tel Abib is mentioned in :

"Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Abib, that lived by the river Chebar

Khabur River

The Khabur River , , , ) is the largest perennial tributary to the Euphrates in Syrian territory. Although the Khabur originates in Turkey, the karstic springs around Ra's al-'Ayn are the river's main source of water. Several important wadis join the Khabur north of Al-Hasakah, together creating...

, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.".

The biblical place name was adopted by Nahum Sokolow

Nahum Sokolow

Nahum Sokolow was a Zionist leader, author, translator, and a pioneer of Hebrew journalism....

 as the title for his Hebrew translation of Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl , born Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl was an Ashkenazi Jew Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.-Early life:...

's Altneuland

The Old New Land

The Old New Land is a utopian novel published by Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, in 1902. Outlining Herzl’s vision for a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, Altneuland became one of Zionism's establishing texts. It was translated into Yiddish by Israel Isidor Elyashev...

 ("Old New Land"). It later gave its name to the modern Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i city of Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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; the Hebrew letter ב without dagesh represented a sound like [v] but is traditionally transcribed 'b' in English translations of the Bible.