Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
). Resen was on the east side of the Tigris. It is probably identified with the mound of ruins called Karamless.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
” Assyrian remains of some considerable extent are found near the modern village of Selamiyeh, and it is perhaps the most probable conjecture that these represent Resen.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
RE'SEN (bridle), a noted Assyrian city between Nineveh and Calah. Gen 10:12. Rawlinson, who places Calah at Nimrud and Nineveh immediately opposite Mosul, would locate Resen between the two, near the village of Selamiyeh, about 3 miles north of Nimrud, where are Assyrian ruins. Fergusson identifies Calah with Kalah Sherghat, and Resen with Nimrud. Some have conjectured that the four cities of Gen 10:12 were all afterward combined under the one name "Nineveh," and that "the great city" referred to this united whole.
Instances of such consolidation have been numerous enough to render this theory plausible.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
a bridle or bit