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SALEMAS
8fi~mS (s~ranrr). 4 Esd.1. RV. See SISAL-
LUM, 6.
SALIM (CAA~IM [TLWH], v.Z. CAAA~IM [A].
CAAHM [V, EUI. Cyr. Theophylact)], a place, on the
w. of the Tonlan, near which was Wnon, where Jobn
baptized, jn. 3 ~ ~ Ihe t . reason given for the choice
of anon (=a place of fountains) is, 'because there
\\-ere many springs (iibara) there,' 30 that a multrtude
could spread thelnselver out, and John could prsr
from one spring to another baptizing them. Eus.
and Jei. (0.8 24591 134x5) place Anon 8 K. m.
s, of scythopolis, 'juxta Salim et Jordanem,' and it
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about seven miles from Beisall there is
P large Christian ruin called Unlm el-'Amdaa, near
which are rrveral springs. Rut no name like Salem
or anon has been found there. Condei himself,
who points thir out. identifies Bnon with the springs
between the \rell-known Salim (near NBblus) and
a place called 'hin8n. in the Wady Fari'a. The
place is accessible from all quarters, especially from
Jerusalem and Galilee (see the attractive description in
T o r , 2 ) But the distance of the springs
from Salim (about seven miles! is rather against thir
idet~tificarioil. It should be noticed, too (I) that Jesus,
as we are told, war at thir time baptizing in the
country districts of Judaa (u. ZZ), and war apparently
not very far from John, and (2) that 'near Salem' is
really mentioned to explain the ready access of the
Jews to Jobn (87, Ddara rohhri rJu inri has the appear-
ance of being a gloss). Considering the frequent
errors of the tert connected with 'Salem,' it is very
plausible to correct 70; (see above) into irpovin
which case it becomer natural to identify
Enon with 'Ain Kirim, which boasts of its beautiful
Sf. Mary's Well, and to the W. of which is the 'Ain
el-Habs (the Hermit's Fountain), connected by a very
late Christian tradition with John the Baptist. The
legendary connection rhould not prejudice us against
the view here propoS"2d. which rests solely on exegetical
and geographical considerations. Cp BETH-~accenr~,
and, for an analogous emendation, NALN.
On the rrndilion onnccting 'Aim Karim with John the
Baprkf, sac Schick, ZDPVZZrggl sr fl T. K. C.
SALIIUOTH (crlhsl~we[B]), I Esd. 836 RV=
Ezra 810, SWEI.ODIITH, 4.
SALLAI ($5~) r. Neh. 1220; in 127 SALLV (P.w.
11).
1. See GAB"^, SALL*,.
SALLAIUUS (cahhoy~oc [B"A]), I Erd. 9=i=Ezra
102,. S"AI.I_ti\I. 11.
SALLU (U\D [Neh.], KlbD [Ch.]), a Judzan
Bfnjamite (BENJAMIN. g 9, iii. ), temp. Nehemiah (Neh.
117; CHAW [BK+.4]. CHAWM [Kc']. CAM&& [Ll:
1 Ch. 97 ; caAw~
[BL]. CAAW [A]). Cp SA1.u.
SALLU (15~). a priest enumerated in one of the
post-exilic lists ( h . I ca~ayal [Kc.* 1.
caAoyla [I.]. om. HK'A). In Neh. 1220 the name is
SALLAI (.>p; oah\ar [Wm4'"], aohovar [L], om.
BK*A) ; and the head of Sailai'r 'father's house' in the
time of Joinkin,, Joshu~'~ successor, is raid to have
been KALI..~~ (+e).
SALMA (KD%I, . . . ,
the name of the clan which war
reckoned as the 'father' of Bethlehem. I Ch.2~
. .. ir.
and introduced into the genealogy of Jerrr. v n. According
to Wellhausen (CH358, cp De fmt. 29).
' Salnla is the fnther of Bethlehem nffer the cxiic' But
to the present writer there is good reason to suppose
that the Bethlehem intended is not the Rethlehem in
Judah, but another Rethlehem-i.e.. Beth-jerahmeel, in
tire Negeb (RUTH, B 4). If will be noticed that the
1 It is true that the Forirth Evangelist nccodisy to the
MTS, invarinh1y user irpow.*up.. But he'mry now and then
have used iepoumAqc, likr other evangelists.
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SALMONE
'sons' of Salma include Netophah and Atroth-kth-
Joab. Now Nerophah is most probably a modification
of Nephtovh or Naphtoah (cp NAPHTUHIM, SALMAH,
2). and Atroth of Ephrath. See JA6r1, SHOBAL, and,
on the Arabian affinities of thir clan, SAI.MAH (uv. 5, i4.
oahwpwv [BA], capo, -aa [L]; v. 11, oahlrwv JRL], -or
[A]). T. K. C.
SALMAH~ na .j. w; c a ~ m [ALI. w ~ -AN [BI).
r. Ruth420 KVm8, according to MT's reading.
Ser SALMA, SALMON.
z. The name of an Arabian people mentioned in
several OT passages-Cant. 1 s I K. 4 Nu. 24 z3 Ezra
251 is (and ll passages), Neb. 11,. (I) In Cant. 15 the
port couples the ' tent%urfainr of Salmah' (red
a?>@, not mi!) with the .tats of Kednr' (see
Cas~ic~as, g 6. col. 687). Now the tribes of KEDAR
[q.u.] tenanted the region aftemuids appropriated by
the Salinaans and the Salmaans were followed
by thr Nabntu~ans. The two latter proples are mentioned
together in a Nabatean inscription (CIS ii. 1979).
Pliny mentions the 'Salmani et Masei Arabes' (NH
6y), and Steph. Byz, quoted by Euting, referr to the
Zahdpor as an Arab population in alliance with the
Nabat.z?anr. The emendation in cant. Lc, is due to
Wellh. (Prul.1" 918, n. 1); cp Wi. AOF'l r96ogz. (I)
hlort probably in I K. 411 nciwn2 should be pointed
n?)gng. This suggestion assumes that two of Solomon's
prefects, supposed to have had daughters of Solonlon
as wives, really married Salamian or Salmean women.
One of there is called Basemath in&>). a corruption of
~lihm$elith':' the other TAPHATH, perhaps a corruption
of Naphtuhith (cp I Ch. 254, reading Nuphtiihi).
(3) The impossible words iK iCt? in Nu. LC, should be
emended into or ~ , The ~ context ~ relates f ~ ~
to the Kenites. Observe that in the Targums .x~i. Ir
the equivalent of the Heb. .I,?. See, however, RALAAM,
g 6 ; Wi. AOF 2423. (4) On the passages relating to
the ;inbe .my in Ezra-Neh.. see SOI.OMON'SERVANTS.
S*~ILAI, Silrrumlrr. T. K. C.
SALMAI (V$W [ord. tert]). Neh.748 RV, AV
SHALMAI.
SALWASAR (Snlmnnoirar), 4 Erd. 1340 : io
Kines. SHALUANEZER.
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SALMON (]iD!u),
P. 6814 [lilt RV, AvZ~~n%orr. 2.
SALMON (~~DYw; cah~arr [Bl: -MWN CALI).
father of Boar. Ruth4-f. (a variant to MT's S.AI.MAX
in t,. so, cp 6 Vg.), Mt. l r Lk. 332 (EV CAAM~N
[KCAD]; but caAa [K'B]). See Rur", § 4 MI. (1,)
"raker him the husband of RAHAB, whom, however,
Talmudic tradition maker, as a proselyte, the wife of
Joshua. Cp Nestle, Exj.T 1091, and see GENEaLocrEs
ii.. 5 =.
SALMONE cnAaj.,,,k '1'1 \+'I1 . n c~p.: nr thr
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