Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews returned (id.).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
TEL-ME'LAH (salt hill), a place in Babylonia from which persons of doubtful pedigree returned. Ezr 2:59; Neh 7:61. Rawlinson would identify it with a city near the Persian Gulf, the Thelme of Ptolemy; Furst would place this also near to Tel-harsa, in Upper Mesopotamia.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
heap of salt