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Smith's Bible Dictionary
(garment), (Ruth 4:20,21; 1 Chronicles 2:11,51,54; Matthew 1:4,5; Luke 3:32) son of Nahshon.
the prince of the children of Judah, and father of Boat, the husband of Ruth. (B.C. 1296.)
Bethlehem-ephratah, which was Salmon’s inheritance, was part of the territory of Caleb, the grandson
of Ephratah; and this caused him to be reckoned among the sons of Caleb.
Salmon
the father of Boar. [Salma, Or Salmon]
a hill near Shechem, on which Abimelech and his followers cut down the boughs with which
they set the tower of Shechem on fire. (Judges 9:48) Its exact position is not known. Referred to
in (Psalms 68:14)
Salmone
(clothed), the east point of the island of Crete. (Acts 27:7) It is a bold promontory, and is visible
for a long distance.
Salome
(peaceful).
•The wife of Zebedee, (Matthew 27:56; Mark 15:40) and probably sister of Mary the mother of
Jesus, to whom reference is made in (John 19:25) The only events recorded of Salome are that
she preferred a request on behalf of her two sons for seats of honor in the kingdom of heaven,
(Matthew 20:20) that she attended at the crucifixion of Jesus, (Mark 15:40) and that she visited
his sepulchre. (Mark 16:1) She is mentioned by name on only the two latter occasions.
•The daughter of Herodias by her first husband, Herod Philip. (Matthew 14:6) She married in the
first the tetrarch of Trachonitis her paternal uncle, sad secondly Aristobulus, the king of Chalcis.
Salt
Indispensable as salt is to ourselves, it was even more so to the Hebrews, being to them not
only an appetizing condiment in the food both of man, (Job 11:6) and beset, (Isaiah 30:24) see
margin, and a valuable antidote to the effects of the heat of the climate on animal food, but also
entering largely into the religious services of the Jews as an accompaniment to the various offerings
presented on the altar. (Leviticus 2:13) They possessed an inexhaustible and ready supply of it on
the southern shores of the Dead Sea. [Sea, The Salt, THE SALT] There is one mountain here called
Jebel Usdum, seven miles long and several hundred feet high, which is composed almost entirely
of salt. The Jews appear to have distinguished between rock-salt and that which was gained by
evaporation as the Talmudists particularize one species (probably the latter) as the “salt of Sodom.”
The salt-pits formed an important source of revenue to the rulers of the country, and Antiochus
conferred a valuable boon on Jerusalem by presenting the city with 375 bushels of salt for the
temple service. As one of the most essential articles of diet, salt symbolized hospitality; as an
antiseptic, durability, fidelity and purity. Hence the expression “covenant of salt,” (Leviticus 2:13;
Numbers 18:19; 2 Chronicles 13:5) as betokening an indissoluble alliance between friends; and
again the expression “salted with the salt of the palace.” (Ezra 4:14) not necessarily meaning that
they had “maintenance from the palace,” as Authorized Version has it, but that they were bound
by sacred obligations fidelity to the king. So in the present day, “to eat bread and salt together” is
an expression for a league of mutual amity. It was probably with a view to keep this idea prominently
before the minds of the Jews that the use of salt was enjoined on the Israelites in their offerings to
God.
Salt Sea, Or Dead Sea
[Sea, The Salt, THE SALT]
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William Smith