TELAIM tĭ lā’ əm (טְלָאִ֔ים; LXX, ἐν γαλγάλοις). A city of Judah near Ziph and the ill-defined Amalekite border, Saul’s concentration point and base for his counterattack on the Amalekites who were raiding Judah. The LXX, following the same authorities as Josephus (1 Sam 15:4; Antiq. VI. vii. 2), reads Gilgal in this text, and it is also suggested that Telaim may be a corruption for Telem (Josh 15:24) in the Negev, strategically a more likely assembly point for a desert campaign of this nature. In 1 Samuel 27:8, following the LXX, some allow an occurrence of the word, which, in fact, would restore some geographical precision to a corrupted passage. Render “they of Telaim,” for “of old.”